tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773348846586089012019-01-21T14:37:45.818-08:00BlogosEsoteric Genetics, Cellular Consciousness, the Metabolism of Time, Sefer Yetzirah and the 231 GatesBlogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-70495614769822327432019-01-21T04:28:00.000-08:002019-01-21T14:37:45.678-08:00Kether - 2010 - Inception<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">''No, not just money: the chance to build cathedrals, entire cities - things that have never existed, things that couldn't exist in the real world.''</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Cobb, Inception, Christopher Nolan</blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kgiAMAFPolg/XEWvjIDvTpI/AAAAAAAAC40/x65UFCdeT0Ip2OtnApelBl3LWSAP_Y27gCLcBGAs/s1600/unifying.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="335" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kgiAMAFPolg/XEWvjIDvTpI/AAAAAAAAC40/x65UFCdeT0Ip2OtnApelBl3LWSAP_Y27gCLcBGAs/s320/unifying.png" width="169" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br />In 2010 (1 + 0 = 1) the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2018/12/secret-sun-unifying-colour-theory.html"><span style="color: red;">Unifying Colour Theory</span></a> began with the release of Inception by Christopher Nolan. The associations used in these analyses will mainly come from the <a href="http://alleeshadowtradition.com/pdf/mystical_qabala.pdf"><span style="color: red;">Mystical Qabalah</span></a>&nbsp;by Dion Fortune but embellished by other QBL/KBListic sources.&nbsp; I will try to be as quick as possible and each one of these essays will list the associations, show you pictures from the film where the ideas were embedded and conclude with a short essay.&nbsp; If you want to do this yourself, just read the relevant chapter of MQ before watching one of the films that takes place in the theory.&nbsp; This is also a useful exercise if you are studying the QBL as you will need to memorise all the associations for each of the Sefiroth. It might be a good idea to write out these associations for yourself, memorise them, then watch the film and tick them off as they go (Nolan really is that clinical!) and that might help them stick.<br /><br /><ul><li>TITLE: Kether - The Crown, (Ratzon - Will, Machashavah - Thought)</li><li>COLOUR: <b>White</b></li><li>MAGICAL IMAGE: Ancient Bearded King seen in profile</li><li>PARTZUF: Arikh Anpin, the Long Suffering One</li><li>MAGICAL NAMES: Existence of existences, concealed of the concealed, ancient of ancients, the primordial point, the point within the circle</li><li>THEMES: The journey from Infinity to Unity, Infinite Regress, Creation, the Infinitessimal, <a href="https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380568/jewish/Shattered-Vessels.htm" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">Shattering of the Vessels</span></a>, Kings who reigned in Edom</li><li>GOD NAME: Ehyieh, Existence, Reality</li><li>MUNDANE CHAKRA: The Primum Mobile, First Swirlings</li><li>ATTAINMENT: Completion of the Great Work</li><li>MICROCOSM: The Cranium</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4THTYz8Noo/XEWrCr-y1lI/AAAAAAAAC4M/r0HmWpvfH_EDRhHRUW8sTdyjNG3zsJdsACLcBGAs/s1600/inception_background.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1023" height="396" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4THTYz8Noo/XEWrCr-y1lI/AAAAAAAAC4M/r0HmWpvfH_EDRhHRUW8sTdyjNG3zsJdsACLcBGAs/s400/inception_background.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CREATION, ARCHITECTURE<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F9jN_TevFok/XEWuw0u7O9I/AAAAAAAAC4s/buH8Tf1TxvAX5-BHDSqACWy_oDgmvnISQCLcBGAs/s1600/1430308_700b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="700" height="166" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F9jN_TevFok/XEWuw0u7O9I/AAAAAAAAC4s/buH8Tf1TxvAX5-BHDSqACWy_oDgmvnISQCLcBGAs/s400/1430308_700b.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">INFINITE REGRESS</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RkNNsfSU32A/XEWh2iQWfvI/AAAAAAAAC3A/DMkREbVOcMQ8Ziixd4gJ1z3kXUY4ejHGACLcBGAs/s1600/incpetionking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1600" height="166" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RkNNsfSU32A/XEWh2iQWfvI/AAAAAAAAC3A/DMkREbVOcMQ8Ziixd4gJ1z3kXUY4ejHGACLcBGAs/s400/incpetionking.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ANCIENT KING</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6YWjA0Y1IdU/XEWjKMivA4I/AAAAAAAAC3U/4E8iWL8A5Bkxtxhwubq5C0Ll7Vjcg8_OQCLcBGAs/s1600/inceptionking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6YWjA0Y1IdU/XEWjKMivA4I/AAAAAAAAC3U/4E8iWL8A5Bkxtxhwubq5C0Ll7Vjcg8_OQCLcBGAs/s400/inceptionking.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LONG SUFFERING ONE</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uJMjPv2IHUQ/XEWmWDKPOWI/AAAAAAAAC30/KdiJycamoqEyCnKj21VuLKwVnOO5Xq5CQCLcBGAs/s1600/dremamachine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="855" height="298" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uJMjPv2IHUQ/XEWmWDKPOWI/AAAAAAAAC30/KdiJycamoqEyCnKj21VuLKwVnOO5Xq5CQCLcBGAs/s400/dremamachine.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DREAM MACHINE - NOTE ''SEPHIROTH''</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPJ48RuVp1Q/XEWtFwjvshI/AAAAAAAAC4g/OayS3USg_3oQrEE5HX_D7qL3BwCjZMc3QCEwYBhgL/s1600/Dream_sharing.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1600" height="166" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPJ48RuVp1Q/XEWtFwjvshI/AAAAAAAAC4g/OayS3USg_3oQrEE5HX_D7qL3BwCjZMc3QCEwYBhgL/s400/Dream_sharing.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PLUGGED INTO ''DREAM MACHINE''</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_oiX0am3xI/XEWihlstVOI/AAAAAAAAC3I/ijzgLEs11AQa-m9yHQjh5jwa0CvfsGSWgCLcBGAs/s1600/Inception-Totem-1382.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="557" height="167" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_oiX0am3xI/XEWihlstVOI/AAAAAAAAC3I/ijzgLEs11AQa-m9yHQjh5jwa0CvfsGSWgCLcBGAs/s400/Inception-Totem-1382.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PRIMUM MOBILE&nbsp; - ''TOTEM''</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6DORzGX7eKE/XEWjoQohCTI/AAAAAAAAC3c/02oqlEuzbk0RckCC1KKhV7_HKWSQH4yPACLcBGAs/s1600/leowhite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="1022" height="166" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6DORzGX7eKE/XEWjoQohCTI/AAAAAAAAC3c/02oqlEuzbk0RckCC1KKhV7_HKWSQH4yPACLcBGAs/s400/leowhite.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WHITE</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oQ5aWE8Js60/XEWk-oOo7PI/AAAAAAAAC3o/eEYWq2oM0zcWEc8Fl0d34LUoNVGWwt2nQCLcBGAs/s1600/cillianwhite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="750" height="306" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oQ5aWE8Js60/XEWk-oOo7PI/AAAAAAAAC3o/eEYWq2oM0zcWEc8Fl0d34LUoNVGWwt2nQCLcBGAs/s400/cillianwhite.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WHITE</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BrBSuDxzkII/XEZI07l5qUI/AAAAAAAAC5o/xe4k1mx2r28d96hbwqePUL3lU1F4MnIvACLcBGAs/s1600/600px-Inception14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="600" height="133" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BrBSuDxzkII/XEZI07l5qUI/AAAAAAAAC5o/xe4k1mx2r28d96hbwqePUL3lU1F4MnIvACLcBGAs/s320/600px-Inception14.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WHITE</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9k0GI4X6P14/XEZIHSBDiSI/AAAAAAAAC5c/hfJCdaZOmocVRZilEeaRnsubhzu608P1gCLcBGAs/s1600/ford-van-white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="652" height="228" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9k0GI4X6P14/XEZIHSBDiSI/AAAAAAAAC5c/hfJCdaZOmocVRZilEeaRnsubhzu608P1gCLcBGAs/s320/ford-van-white.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WHITE</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Snx-qiihEnQ/XEWra6ETGhI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/rhASV9LZDEAll4ZujmsQ6FtA3_6FTT6pACEwYBhgL/s1600/smashedowrldsinception.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1600" height="166" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Snx-qiihEnQ/XEWra6ETGhI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/rhASV9LZDEAll4ZujmsQ6FtA3_6FTT6pACEwYBhgL/s400/smashedowrldsinception.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">''LIMBO'' - SHATTERING, SHATTERED WORLDS</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E9dR7kFKEgQ/XEWn6hofnBI/AAAAAAAAC4A/TH0Mp221lfI7ugNF0kIYoeyLo17m9ev3ACLcBGAs/s1600/inceptioncompletion.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="600" height="132" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E9dR7kFKEgQ/XEWn6hofnBI/AAAAAAAAC4A/TH0Mp221lfI7ugNF0kIYoeyLo17m9ev3ACLcBGAs/s400/inceptioncompletion.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TOWARDS VERY END OF FILM, COMPLETION OF ''THE GREAT WORK''</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Inception is a movie based around the idea that an individual can <i>control </i>(<b>Ratzon</b>) someone else's dreams and also that those dreams can be artificially created and made labyrinthine by ''<i>architects</i>''.&nbsp; The movie opens with the <i>ancient king in profile</i> (Ken Watanabe) and introduces us to the central problem, distinguishing reality from the dream - who is God here - Cobb or Saito?&nbsp; The Dream Machine is reminiscent of <i>a Tree of Life</i> diagram split length-ways in half with some of the Sefirot appearing in the upper part of the briefcase and some in the lower; this Tree of Life being the means through which we connect our consciousnesses and share the dream.&nbsp; In the film we see the protagonist wrestling with the problems of [this kind of] creative work - getting from nothing to something, infinity, infinite regress, the <i>smashed kingdoms</i> of his previous acts of creation - most of this is discussed via on-the-nose exposition/dialogue with the young architect, although the more complex ideas are treated in the scenes where he confronts his wife.&nbsp; &nbsp;A sustained analysis* might reveal that the supporting characters are all personifications (Partzufim) of the Sefiroth, for instance note the yellow/orange tones indicating <i>Hod/Mercury</i> of the backgrounds in the scene where we meet the ''chemist'' Yusuf, or the pink/purple of Eames' shirt which links to <i>Yesod/Luna&nbsp;</i>and therefore to the mastery of dreaming and psychology that this character represents.&nbsp; In terms of costume and set design you can see the dominant use of light shades of colours (light browns, greys, silvers, etc) and <i>white</i>, the amount of <i>white </i>increasing through the film as we get ''deeper into the dream'' culminating in the snow fortress scene where every character is wearing white, carrying white guns and throwing white hand grenades!&nbsp; In Limbo we see scenes of the Shattering of the Vessels and the destroyed Kingdoms of Edom - this is more advanced Kabbalah and discusses how God or the Creator comes to terms with his older or failed projects.&nbsp;<i>&nbsp;</i>Cob then reveals that he has lived for centuries in this lowest level of the mind and is truly<i> the Ancient of Ancients.&nbsp;&nbsp;</i>After coming to terms with this, he ''wakes up'' on the plane with<i> the Great Work </i>(i.e. controlling Fischer's dreams and the inception itself) <i>seemingly complete. The Primum Mobile</i>, the First Swirlings are a theme we repeatedly return to via the ''Totem'' which leaves us in the end not knowing whether we have ever encountered reality or have always been suspended in Cobb's dream.&nbsp; <b>Much like life</b>.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Wait, Cobb, I'm lost.&nbsp; Whose subconscious are we going into?</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Ariadne, Inception, Christopher Nolan</blockquote>*Personifications<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mhTI0kTUkYg/XEZGRLNpuYI/AAAAAAAAC5A/rvYtrR1LUZwhHSqGoerQRsYJRN1-KRcwwCLcBGAs/s1600/yusuf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="355" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mhTI0kTUkYg/XEZGRLNpuYI/AAAAAAAAC5A/rvYtrR1LUZwhHSqGoerQRsYJRN1-KRcwwCLcBGAs/s320/yusuf.jpg" width="227" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PERSONIFCATION OF HOD (ORANGE/MERCURY)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0X85oju945I/XEZHiVdueUI/AAAAAAAAC5U/bnz4hsfx6l0i-pUdORWe88oNV7YzXSHwgCLcBGAs/s1600/eamsgif.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="245" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0X85oju945I/XEZHiVdueUI/AAAAAAAAC5U/bnz4hsfx6l0i-pUdORWe88oNV7YzXSHwgCLcBGAs/s320/eamsgif.gif" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PERSONIFICATION OF YESOD (PURPLE/LUNA)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-13026792472408881342019-01-18T04:05:00.002-08:002019-01-18T08:06:38.676-08:00The Nanocosm<div class="tr_bq"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq">Settle thy studies Faustus and begin<br />To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe</blockquote><div class="tr_bq"><br /></div>As I back check the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2018/12/secret-sun-unifying-colour-theory.html"><span style="color: red;">Unifying Colour Theory</span></a> for the Secret Sun by re-watching various films I see just how ''on-the-nose'' this <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-wmt-twin-peaks-season-3-painting-by.html"><span style="color: red;">Painting by Numbers</span></a> approach has been.&nbsp; At the moment my particular focus is Christopher Nolan and I'll discuss the ''Qabalah'' of his films in the next posts but in exploring that work I can see the standard Micro and Macrocosmic references being used very overtly, there is nothing subtle about it at all if you know what you are looking for.&nbsp; For example in the Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune you will find a list of various qualities for each Sefira at the beginning of every chapter - magical symbolism, colour, number, ''path of wisdom'', astrology, physiological position, associated trance etc and if I have not had a serious case of confirmation bias induced then you can see some of this Painting by Numbers work in the way each of these qualities are just being ticked off a checklist through the film - beat by beat. If you want to try this yourself start with Inception.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f_2Bir89U3s/XEG_dfMxu6I/AAAAAAAAC2o/7eKXBUH4b3wk77Zvuc_1VYQeRYE_AbjNwCLcBGAs/s1600/inception-dreidel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="1280" height="152" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f_2Bir89U3s/XEG_dfMxu6I/AAAAAAAAC2o/7eKXBUH4b3wk77Zvuc_1VYQeRYE_AbjNwCLcBGAs/s320/inception-dreidel.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JUST KETHER PROBLEMS</td></tr></tbody></table><br />This research has made me reflect on my own work and contributions to the Western Mystery Tradition though - work that has been described at various intervals as ''bleeding edge'', ''revolutionary'' and ''really fucking weird''.&nbsp; Studying Biochemistry and Genetics allowed me to go much deeper into these standard WMT associations than my peers, if other practitioners before had been talking about or deploying the Macrocosmic and Microcosmic forces to express themselves or work their magic I had been using <b>the Nanocosm</b>.&nbsp; Yet, much like Vincent Bridges found in <a href="http://www.jwmt.org/v2n15/dna.html"><span style="color: red;">his discussion</span></a> of the 64 codons, 22 amino acids, Angels in the DNA, and how they tied into the Enochian material received by Dee and Kelley, there is a big drop off in audience and attention span once you move beyond the basics.&nbsp; I made my peace with that a long time ago but just like a more detailed knowledge of colour allows an artist to explore their field in much more depth so a more detailed knowledge of divine ''physiology'' allows far greater specificity when it comes to <b>esoteric medicine.</b><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">These metaphysics of magicians<br />And necromantic books are heavenly;<br />Lines, circles, scenes, letters, and characters;<br />Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires.</blockquote><br />I still feel there is a massive issue in these <i>last days of our tradition outside elite circles,</i> where the proliferation of 101 material has lead every other 201 or 301 student to market themselves as a teacher as they don't realise they are far far from the end, as opposed to people recognising at the beginning that there is a lot more technical depth to this and you need to approach this subject as you would a university degree or PhD, a decade long learning project as opposed to a set of quick schemes.&nbsp; You can see this lack of depth in the way most of the elders/leaders now talk about nothing more than politics/ethics/behaviour management or making money and the distinct lack of discourse on topics like art or healing.&nbsp; The others seem bent on reinventing the wheel as opposed to repairing the one they already had.&nbsp; To me, these forces have had a dampening effect on our whole culture.&nbsp; Is their pride in this?&nbsp; Sure, like Dr Faustus I value knowledge and power and this combined with the tragic flaw of curiosity has lead me into many dangerous places resulting in realisations that were not of benefit to my mental health, but I did return with greatly improved medicine and art.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">All things that move between the quiet poles<br />Shall be at my command; emperors and kings<br />Are but obeyed in their several provinces<br />Nor can they raise the wind, nor rend the clouds<br />But his dominion that exceeds in this,<br />Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man<br />A sound magician is a mighty god</blockquote><br />For example whereas an on-the-nose practitioner might think directly in terms of air, water and fire, or their psychological equivalencies, I think in terms of oxygen, water and glucose as <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-tree-of-life-saadia-three-elements.html"><span style="color: red;">components of the blood</span></a></span>*.&nbsp; Whereas one practitioner might appreciate some of the negative effects of Sol on a patient, I can <i>see </i>underlying flaws in the nuclear membrane of their cells, a <i>spectrum </i>of <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-depth-of-east-tifereth-beauty.html"><span style="color: red;">nuclear envelopathies</span></a> that might affect balance, posture, cause spasms, fatigue even the inability or lack of propensity to cry, or other problems with the mitochondrial membrane that may be affecting energy levels.&nbsp; Finally, whatever Capricorn means to you it is unlikely to mean the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-tree-of-life-saadia-tree-twelve_22.html"><span style="color: red;">post-translational folding of proteins</span></a> and what it means to be well-aspected or poorly-aspected in <i>those </i>areas.&nbsp; You don't see many wizards wondering whether your proteins are wonky! But the medicine, if you will, becomes far more specific and accurate this way.&nbsp; I am not disparaging non-scientific paths through magical realisation and practice, or those that are focussed solely on quick material results in terms of wealth or power, but these two approaches seem to have become so dominant in the community that we have forgotten other ways exist.&nbsp; And I make this appeal before I will discuss what I would consider more simple Qabalah in the context of movie analysis to remind everyone of the incredible depth of this ocean.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9JhosHfoTPw/XEHY5t11VRI/AAAAAAAAC20/c9CDgXMWGp4FuBy0b3OWsYM2ekJk0TX8gCLcBGAs/s1600/sef.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9JhosHfoTPw/XEHY5t11VRI/AAAAAAAAC20/c9CDgXMWGp4FuBy0b3OWsYM2ekJk0TX8gCLcBGAs/s320/sef.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CURRENT STATE OF THE WMT</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I've played Dr Faustus twice in my life, once in 2010 and then again in 2014 to commemorate the work of Vincent Bridges.&nbsp; Like twin Faustuses, both of us ran afoul of Chronos in Edward Kelley's Tower, this highly specific ''nanocosmic'' magic of life and spirits slammed right into <b>the nature of time itself</b>.&nbsp; As I discuss in <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-wmt-fear-and-pride.html"><span style="color: red;">Fear and Pride</span></a>, in the pursuit of deeper understanding one of us died and the other nearly went insane - knowledge of the <i>nanocosm </i>was not enough to pass through that needle's eye - perhaps the <i>picocosm </i>will be?<br /><br /><blockquote><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[The clock strikes twelve.]</em><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!</span><br /><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[Thunder and lightning.]</em><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!</span><br /><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[Enter Devils.]</em><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while!&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I'll burn my books!</span></blockquote><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe</span></blockquote><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*In this case they would be air of air, water of air and fire of air</span>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-83826804040031932892019-01-13T05:43:00.003-08:002019-01-13T07:23:12.725-08:00Malkuth - 2019 - Unifying Colour Theory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vs20VplU3qE/XBYwctkQJLI/AAAAAAAACr0/cXZGdii6I-cOIKygQXapgIjw5srVhcWYACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Tree_of_life_kircher_plain_color.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="335" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vs20VplU3qE/XBYwctkQJLI/AAAAAAAACr0/cXZGdii6I-cOIKygQXapgIjw5srVhcWYACPcBGAYYCw/s320/Tree_of_life_kircher_plain_color.png" width="169" /></a></div><br />Over at <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Secret Sun</span></a> I was making predictions on what would be the use of colours (primarily in the fashion and film of the most powerful <i>houses </i>in those industries) throughout <b>2019</b>.&nbsp; If the colours of the <b>Year of Malkuth</b> (2019, 1 + 9 = 10) are citrine (yellow), olive (green), russet (red) and black, and the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2018/12/secret-sun-unifying-colour-theory.html"><span style="color: red;">Unifying Colour Theory</span></a> is correct, then this is what we should be seeing rolling out, right now, and over the next year.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A5ujZ3hlt7E/XDsi0XPofiI/AAAAAAAAC04/WyrECrMx5kweKgP-GXGxtNBkuQEJxtJWACLcBGAs/s1600/womaninyellowdress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A5ujZ3hlt7E/XDsi0XPofiI/AAAAAAAAC04/WyrECrMx5kweKgP-GXGxtNBkuQEJxtJWACLcBGAs/s320/womaninyellowdress.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are you listening to me or are you looking at the woman in the yellow dress?&nbsp; Look again!&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table><br />In the previous post I gave some thoughts on the difficulties of influencing society through these ritual elements - production problems, how much of your efforts ''land'', etc - and the way in which the ideas need to be seeded by influencers a little <i>before </i>the beginning of each year so during the year the colour holds sway.&nbsp; Returning to the Golden Dawn Colours above, the Year of Malkuth then is even more <i>complex </i>as there are four colours to ''deploy'' as opposed to one, it also makes explaining it more difficult as well.&nbsp; If we were such a ritualist, there are a couple of ways we could approach this problem - we could a) roll them out one by one with the first quarter of 2019 being yellow, then the next green etc or b) we could attempt to roll them out ''as one''.&nbsp; I would argue from observations that <b>both </b>of these approaches are being used.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/soJLSgDsx_s/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/soJLSgDsx_s?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><br />Anyone with eyes to see has seen the roll out of yellow (bright yellow all the way to a kind of dijon mustard) as a fashion choice, first for women and then afterwards for men.&nbsp; But yellow is very difficult to pull off as a sole colour and was nominally paired with black during late 2018.&nbsp; If you watch the Bumblebee trailer you'll see the primary use of yellow, paired with other things, including amongst the colours, exhortations towards the 'mystical bond between man and machine' and the <i>nostalgia nuke</i> of the Beatle car itself.&nbsp; They also rick roll you at the end.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gh0wJN_16TA/XDskjjyT5OI/AAAAAAAAC1E/FpNLdwCIEOYZ_QhWePoCWWwRnDR0r2NWQCLcBGAs/s1600/quilted-faux-fur-hooded-padded-belted-puffer-coat-yellow-lily-lulu-fashion-heather-0623-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gh0wJN_16TA/XDskjjyT5OI/AAAAAAAAC1E/FpNLdwCIEOYZ_QhWePoCWWwRnDR0r2NWQCLcBGAs/s320/quilted-faux-fur-hooded-padded-belted-puffer-coat-yellow-lily-lulu-fashion-heather-0623-copy.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br /><br />During December 2018 the colours in nearly all of the shops I looked in were using all of the colours of Malkuth, listed above as the primary display by the entrance - people made those purchases and now I reckon from looking around me that about every fourth person is playing this game (not everyone will buy a new winter coat after all).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-53nSExvkNco/XDsgfG_ck5I/AAAAAAAAC0U/0CsiMGt8YlAygycstHpwU0g_P766ckWMwCLcBGAs/s1600/20181216_141714.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-53nSExvkNco/XDsgfG_ck5I/AAAAAAAAC0U/0CsiMGt8YlAygycstHpwU0g_P766ckWMwCLcBGAs/s200/20181216_141714.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bdIhenNGQNQ/XDsglLgci3I/AAAAAAAAC0Y/wCAzorEraTIqoKcRjNRF3ZtLIt-CaRQ-wCLcBGAs/s1600/20181216_141146.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bdIhenNGQNQ/XDsglLgci3I/AAAAAAAAC0Y/wCAzorEraTIqoKcRjNRF3ZtLIt-CaRQ-wCLcBGAs/s200/20181216_141146.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br />If the theory is true we will see the same colours, probably in different shades, being used during Spring, and we imagine it will be even more visible. We might even see the ''prime'' colour change from yellow (which is leading at the moment) to green.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bA4SNXKkCWk/XDsg0netIdI/AAAAAAAAC0k/uAnS7I8y58k2QoZoMVX-6h04Ar_J7bYagCLcBGAs/s1600/661_magic-article-actu_568_21b_d0d521e599e54febfa5fcb004f_belgique-deces-accidentel-d-un-gilet-jaune_56821bd0d521e599e54febfa5fcb004f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="980" height="146" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bA4SNXKkCWk/XDsg0netIdI/AAAAAAAAC0k/uAnS7I8y58k2QoZoMVX-6h04Ar_J7bYagCLcBGAs/s320/661_magic-article-actu_568_21b_d0d521e599e54febfa5fcb004f_belgique-deces-accidentel-d-un-gilet-jaune_56821bd0d521e599e54febfa5fcb004f.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Bu5Wp9q6A4/XDsg0UN7-mI/AAAAAAAAC0g/w-ZR60c-j_kKf4UlO3l_USqtDlnPIsIewCLcBGAs/s1600/1605837-manifestants-revetus-gilet-jaune-defile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="641" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Bu5Wp9q6A4/XDsg0UN7-mI/AAAAAAAAC0g/w-ZR60c-j_kKf4UlO3l_USqtDlnPIsIewCLcBGAs/s320/1605837-manifestants-revetus-gilet-jaune-defile.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />An even more obvious use of yellow as ''fashion'' is in the <i>gilet jaune</i> movement which could conceivably dominate the conversation throughout the first quarter.&nbsp; If the theory is correct could we see a shift to a ''green'' political movement in the second quarter or is the olive/green colour we will see the military on the streets countering rising unrest in Europe?&nbsp; During The Aftermath movie, scheduled for release on April 26th we can see the use of all these colours in the costume design for Keira Knightley's character but against that background of military green (olive).&nbsp; There will be many more releases like this where we can see ahead of time whether the theory will be true or just an extreme case of confirmation bias.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FPv3e2FZOgo/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FPv3e2FZOgo?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When I look over sites like Vigilant Citizen I can't be sure exactly how much detailed knowledge of the occult is at work or how much of it is pointing and going look - ''spooky evil magic symbolism stuff''.&nbsp; Without at least an attempt at really understanding the thinking behind it how are their observations of any real use?&nbsp; Do they think that the very act of studying the magic will corrupt them, that all magic is, by its very nature, <b>black magic</b>?&nbsp; I'd like to, at least, believe in <b>white magic</b>.&nbsp; With that in mind, I'd like to discuss what it means to be the <b>Year of Malkuth</b> and how this connects with some of the things that Secret Sun has been observing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sclK_I735Hw/XDsm1uPERpI/AAAAAAAAC1Q/aI8WtmbPfzk_Z8iCxjrn0pSZ-7rLlUpxACLcBGAs/s1600/Color-Lightning-Flash-and-Serpent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sclK_I735Hw/XDsm1uPERpI/AAAAAAAAC1Q/aI8WtmbPfzk_Z8iCxjrn0pSZ-7rLlUpxACLcBGAs/s320/Color-Lightning-Flash-and-Serpent.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>If the theory is true and the colours have been ''beaming'' out as <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Seven_Rays"><span style="color: red;">theosophical rays</span></a>, over humanity, then the path that we, as a society, are being taken down is the lightning flash of the Golden Dawn Tree of Life.&nbsp; Now this is fairly basic magickal theory, the Lightning Flash is effectively the metaphysics behind how plurality (Malkuth) is ''conjured'' from unity (Keter)*, but what does it mean when used as a global ritual in this way.&nbsp; As ever, looking at the opposite of a thing can tell us more about the thing itself.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VHiY_hbAO8E/XDsschSD-AI/AAAAAAAAC1c/3t9L6hTiNGUzbuCxuuKOuELT1rSh5eIxACLcBGAs/s1600/andy-and-fireman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="525" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VHiY_hbAO8E/XDsschSD-AI/AAAAAAAAC1c/3t9L6hTiNGUzbuCxuuKOuELT1rSh5eIxACLcBGAs/s320/andy-and-fireman.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy, the path of the Fool, looking at Kether, the White ''Sphere''</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NTM892OiFkQ/XDsvf9Sk2cI/AAAAAAAAC1o/lygoAyBgO2EXrkZJ1kkxbUp2uXAJoxXrgCLcBGAs/s1600/0AndyFooltarot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="946" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NTM892OiFkQ/XDsvf9Sk2cI/AAAAAAAAC1o/lygoAyBgO2EXrkZJ1kkxbUp2uXAJoxXrgCLcBGAs/s320/0AndyFooltarot.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-wmt-twin-peaks-season-3-painting-by.html"><span style="color: red;">Painting by Numbers </span></a>in Twin Peaks - The Return I argue that David Lynch is taking us back <i><b>up </b></i>the Tree, i.e. that the Doppleganger and Tulpa - <b>Red Room</b> - (City) state is Malkuth, and Twin Peaks (Nature) is Kether.&nbsp; I then used this theory to make a prediction about the nature of a <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-wmt-twin-peaks-season-3-painting-by_14.html"><span style="color: red;">following episode</span></a> and, in the end, mapped out roughly what would happen through the Return before it happened. We finally reach this Kether, when the splintered Dale (Evil Coop, Dougie Coop) is restored to his unity in the actual town of Twin Peaks, by tracing the paths that connect the two together - within esoteric circles this process is called The Tree of Return (Teshuvah, the Return).&nbsp; Therefore the path <b><i>down </i></b>the Tree, <i>the lighting flash</i>, the means by which unity is turned to plurality, is the means by which you <b>create the dopplegangers</b>, the tulpas, the splits, the alters, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-woJ-2PIyjkM/XDsz1YlP1OI/AAAAAAAAC10/dBkY22Ca7tIqH2YkK35yor1w7dredWlswCLcBGAs/s1600/goodbadugly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-woJ-2PIyjkM/XDsz1YlP1OI/AAAAAAAAC10/dBkY22Ca7tIqH2YkK35yor1w7dredWlswCLcBGAs/s320/goodbadugly.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br />You could make the positive argument that the journey from the White of Kether to the Yellows, Olives, Reddy Browns and Blacks of Malkuth could be the journey of a predominately white society to a more pluralistic one and that this has been the sole focus of the ritual to encourage us to accept that plurality. On the other hand, you could argue that within years we will be entering the <b>post-identity era</b> where the gender, racial and sexuality issues that concern us today are seen as simply the <i>amuse bouche</i>.&nbsp; The rise of the <i>evil doppleganger</i> of your internet profile is the real starter and the main course we will be served is a heady mixture of digital clones (things that write your emails, or ''like'' shit for you on instagram), the demons of ''chat'', AI, <a href="https://medium.com/huia/live-deep-fakes-you-can-now-change-your-face-to-someone-elses-in-real-time-video-applications-a4727e06612f"><span style="color: red;">live deep fakes</span></a>, actual physical clones, etc, where you will not only not know who you are talking to, but even not know who <i>you </i>are - this to me sounds more like the journey <i>into </i>The Red Room and more like the apocalyptic observations of the Secret Sun.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9CEpRkapZn0/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9CEpRkapZn0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><br /><br />So who is behind this and why would you want to do that to society?&nbsp; The general perception amongst circles like those of Vigilant Citizen or David Icke are that it is a demonic spirit-mediated (or inter-dimensional alien) human agency like the Illuminati.&nbsp; That rituals happen in various locations and instructions are received from various <i>things </i>either physically, telepathically or through channeling or possession and then carried out accordingly.&nbsp; Another way of looking at it is that there are a group of extra-dimensional entities at work influencing people <i>unconsciously</i>, that this story, if you like, is being written <i>through </i>people that are not even aware of their role in the greater plot - are those thoughts you are having really yours..?&nbsp; The motivation is to either a) attempt to prepare/acclimatise us for the technological shocks outlined above or b) more insidiously, involve themselves actively in the process of splitting everyone's personality, a kind of Global MKUltra.&nbsp; I am not sure exactly where I stand on all this but I do think there are serious problems with over-reliance on a spirit-model, as it has manifested in both conspiracy and esoteric circles, and that a <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2016/10/time-travel-some-general-theory-and.html"><span style="color: red;">time-centred model </span></a>will eventually be seen to have more explanatory force.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AOcp0wpune8/XDs4cZkXxWI/AAAAAAAAC2E/m8ksv6liXX8AFa6mzARWmNAaq8zHyqVIwCLcBGAs/s1600/kinginyellow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AOcp0wpune8/XDs4cZkXxWI/AAAAAAAAC2E/m8ksv6liXX8AFa6mzARWmNAaq8zHyqVIwCLcBGAs/s320/kinginyellow.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br />Generally that organization(s) is seen to be keen for the burgeoning technologies to be released as rapidly as possible as they don't want being held back from the realisation of the trans-human,post-human vision and the alternative is either what a) hold back, slow up, regulate these technologies or b) ban/outlaw them?&nbsp; I can potentially see a nativist anti-technology toxic-nostalgia movement maybe getting a global ban on certain mass cloning techniques, digital or otherwise, but it'll all still be weaponized, black market and available to the elite so I don't see how that is a path to victory on this, it just seems to be a path to wilful ignorance of the possibilities of evil.&nbsp; I feel that we are damned if we do and damned if we don't.&nbsp; <br /><br /><b>Maybe we are just damned.</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dr Faustus - Where art thou damned?<br />Mephistopheles - In Hell.<br />Dr Faustus - How comes it then that thou art out of hell?<br />Mephistopheles - Why Faustus, this is Hell, nor am I out of it.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe</blockquote><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkANdW-Wf1E/XDtITQjNeII/AAAAAAAAC2c/ii4j9XMrvcYuiYBRVNK0E9ur4L_lEe61wCLcBGAs/s1600/father%2Bblackwood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkANdW-Wf1E/XDtITQjNeII/AAAAAAAAC2c/ii4j9XMrvcYuiYBRVNK0E9ur4L_lEe61wCLcBGAs/s400/father%2Bblackwood.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Father Faustus Blackwood</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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You will see the use of Blue instead of Black in the four colours of Malkuth, this is to link directly with the elements as well.&nbsp; Although you are seeing a little light blue about at the moment, blue won't finally take hold until the final quarter and that it will be a <b>very dark <i>navy&nbsp;</i></b>blue, i.e. the actual navy!&nbsp; If the theory is correct and continues they may go back to the beginning and we'll see white in 2020, or they will go back up and we'll see the same thing in reverse over the next decade.</div><br />*Understanding the paradox of getting from 0 ''to'' 1 however is far from basic as its part of the most complicated forms of metaphysics behind the Lurianic Kabbalah.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-82627451490164221052018-12-16T07:49:00.000-08:002018-12-16T08:21:28.178-08:00Secret Sun - Unifying Colour Theory<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE GOLDEN DAWN TREE OF LIFE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>STANDARD COLOURS</b></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vs20VplU3qE/XBYwctkQJLI/AAAAAAAACrw/6IGYYwjPQR0xf6TiVke3U9jM0HtDa1OYQCLcBGAs/s1600/Tree_of_life_kircher_plain_color.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="335" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vs20VplU3qE/XBYwctkQJLI/AAAAAAAACrw/6IGYYwjPQR0xf6TiVke3U9jM0HtDa1OYQCLcBGAs/s400/Tree_of_life_kircher_plain_color.png" width="211" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>COLOUR - GENERAL NOTES</b></span></div><br /><br />If colours are being used as ritual elements they will be seen in <b>cover art/marketing</b> and/or <b>set, costume, lighting, colour grading and key prop item.</b>&nbsp; Where colour is not present in cover-art/costume it is often to do with the iconic nature of the character's costume so this mainly affects Marvel.&nbsp; It might be the case that 80% ''lands'' on target in the time zone and the 20% that misses the ''season'' is if production/release is held up or delayed sometimes for an Oscar - La La Land might be an example of this. The following list is not exhaustive and could be a demonstration of <b>confirmation bias.&nbsp;</b> The evidence does seem stronger for the theory than not.&nbsp; I have included what I have on the alchemical metals so far - the theory here would be that the metal extracted represents the ''virtue'' of the film although in some situations it might actually be the physical metal that is shown or a key object made from the metal.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">2015 MOVIES -&nbsp;</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">YELLOW, GOLD ORE</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VbFKHEJkyYY/XBY5BEY5ylI/AAAAAAAACsE/8R5X6rlJmsc1xkB0OPL7dWNS8uf6mVA_wCLcBGAs/s1600/yellow%2Bpallete.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VbFKHEJkyYY/XBY5BEY5ylI/AAAAAAAACsE/8R5X6rlJmsc1xkB0OPL7dWNS8uf6mVA_wCLcBGAs/s320/yellow%2Bpallete.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Whatever I asked him to do he told it was not his job to do that - whether it was collecting glasses, taking out food or emptying the dishwasher.&nbsp; When I asked him what he did do he replied: ''I fall in love a hundred times a day.''<br /><br />How many significant moments have there been in your life?&nbsp; And what does your answer say about you? I asked these questions to a group of friends and I was surprised by the response.&nbsp; The answers ranged from 10-20, to hundreds.&nbsp; Do you think every moment of your life is significant, that you can, to quote Simone, fall in love a hundred times a day?&nbsp; That there is a choice available in every moment that can change your life one way or the other, or are there only certain moments when that can happen? If we say every moment is significant aren't we making them all equally meaningless?&nbsp; And if we don't then how are we measuring significance?<br /><br />For the sake of this post we are defining/measuring significance as a moment where there is/was a choice available which can/did radically alter your life one way or the other in a way that directly affects the Seven [Planetary] Kingships and their transpositions [altogether the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2016/12/time-travel-fourteen-versions-of.html"><span style="color: red;">Fourteen Minotaurs</span></a>] of yourself: <i>Wisdom/Folly, Wealth/Poverty, Fertility/Desolation, Health/Sickness, Power/Slavery, War/Peace, Beauty/Ugliness</i> i.e. in that moment you became sick or poor [for a long time] and it was a result of a decision made in that moment.&nbsp; These are what Raziel describes as ''robust branching moments'' and suggests that these are the only points in your life where you are ''free''. Now you would think that magical rituals, or rites of passage like funerals, marriages, baptisms etc would automatically be significant but this doesn't seem to be the case.&nbsp; In fact much of ritual is [should be] dutiful routine temple work and simply maintains the quality of the path you are on as opposed to altering anything and even getting married can be another step on a path as opposed to a significant jump to another path.<br /><br />If, in attempting to understand Raziel, we are defining significance as above, it could still vary widely between individuals, some individuals may have a faster rate, churning through significance much more rapidly than others who digest more slowly.&nbsp; Similarly there may be periods where significance is a continuous flow to the point of being backed up and others where years may pass without significance.&nbsp; Also in attempting to understand this subjectively we have the issue of the reality of significance in an individual's life and how it matches up with that individual's interpretation of significance - they may think any given moment may be significant but in reality it isn't and vice versa.&nbsp; Meaning junkies - people who do say things like ''I fall in love a hundred times a day'' - are likely to think their life is full of significance, and meaning squirrels - squirrelling away rare nuggets of meaning in a bleak, wintry, monotonous life - might <i>underestimate </i>how much significance is actually going on.&nbsp; Our tendency towards seeing significance in a grand sense may cause us to falsely attribute significance to ''big events'', whereas in fact they were more routine, and miss those branching moments that are hidden inside seemingly inconsequential, negligible actions.<br /><br />Going back over the material, in particular the most recent sections on <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2018/04/temporal-gradients.html"><span style="color: red;">Tempography</span></a>, we can say that we know, theoretically, that a robust branching moment is coming when the number of synchronicities [in our personal life] increase and we can also know the type of event that is coming from the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.com/2018/04/tempography-archetypal-situations.html"><span style="color: red;">type of synchronicities</span></a> but we can't know exactly what that moment is.&nbsp; It could be as simple as choosing to go right instead of left - how do we increase the effectiveness of our precognition to know exactly when that moment will be?<br /><br />So I have been thinking about this over the last few nights and trying to make some kind of estimate on an answer to the opening question in the above terms, i.e. a change that was brought about by my choice at a robust branching moment that produced an observable radical shift in the Kingship and I don't believe in my nearly 40 years on Earth in this form that there have been more than 200.&nbsp; I can say that there have been <i>more </i>objective significant shifts towards Wisdom from Folly than other Kingships and Power from Slavery and that the area of least observable shifts have been with Fertility and Desolation, in that I have fewer objective events relating to tribe, family and children - positive or negative.&nbsp; There have been very few significant events involving Wealth and Health but those that there have been have been positive and extremely significant so far.&nbsp; <br /><br />There is something slightly morbid in this assessment, in that it makes you objectively address your mortality?&nbsp; How many times have you [through your action in a significant moment] shifted from wealth to poverty and vice versa?&nbsp; How many times has your life been brought low by sickness/infection, as opposed to catching a cold or flu?&nbsp; How many times do <i>you </i>fall in love a day?Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-82569684545813475522018-05-14T02:06:00.002-07:002018-05-14T02:48:19.347-07:00Hermetic Lessons - (Hermetic) Tarot<b><br /></b><b>Introduction</b><br /><br />- Explain differences in Renaissance, Modern and Post-modern Tarot<br /><br />- Show how the disagreements in Kabbalistic attributions of the Major Arcana between the G.D. British (Fool in first position) and the Levi Continental tradition (Magician first) lead inevitably to questioning whether there is any objective (astrological/kabbalistic) meaning to these associations or whether it is based on whatever the person thinks/believes - if so what are the implications for the rest of Tarot symbolism (i.e. that without astro/kab)?&nbsp; The arbitrary nature of such attributions and questions about their value opens the door to the flowering of <i>post-modern Tarot</i> i.e. oracle decks, and <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2015/05/the-wmt-what-went-wrong-whatever-works_25.html"><span style="color: red;">whatever works</span></a> culture - the subsequent ''return'' to the focus on ''authentic'' Renaissance decks is as much a function of millenial&nbsp;<i>magipsters</i> as it is any actual solving of the original problem, what it effectively does is<i> half-avoid </i>it<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C4LvfI5dUQU/WvlLcyzlISI/AAAAAAAACrA/dG1jsSG6A2k4esxJ5oR8-LHFi-fJxF6MQCLcBGAs/s1600/magician2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="737" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C4LvfI5dUQU/WvlLcyzlISI/AAAAAAAACrA/dG1jsSG6A2k4esxJ5oR8-LHFi-fJxF6MQCLcBGAs/s320/magician2.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><br /><b>Main&nbsp;</b><br /><br />- Purpose of first lesson is to understand what it means to transition from Fool (0) to Magician (1), that the Magician is the idealised magickal self and that journey may take multiple lifetimes, and that this idealised self may be your ally, your teacher, your friend and your enemy depending on philosophical perspective<br /><br />- Detail the Magician card, what are the primary tools of the magician and how do they relate to the Tarot at large?<br /><br /><ul><li><b>Wands/Fire</b> - Passion, Ambition, Drive, Creativity</li><li><b>Cups/Water</b> - Emotions, feelings, dreams, receptivity</li><li><b>Swords/Air</b> - Intellect, destruction/deconstruction, analysis</li><li><b>Pantacles/Earth</b> - Material concerns, physical health and wealth</li></ul><br />- Through the magickal tools the magician learns to direct his will but ultimately the objects themselves have no intrinsic value and act much like stabiliser wheels on a bike while you learn.&nbsp; One of the tasks of the trainee is to incorporate/integrate these tools within the body, the mind and the soul.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0JzXU1CBffw/WvlP0F7BdQI/AAAAAAAACrM/Wl1b1xCljCogLe8L5IAu8q2bMW9b1GB2ACLcBGAs/s1600/main-qimg-d02b0d4cc8f7d2d9f00ab6f179944ed5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="602" height="282" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0JzXU1CBffw/WvlP0F7BdQI/AAAAAAAACrM/Wl1b1xCljCogLe8L5IAu8q2bMW9b1GB2ACLcBGAs/s320/main-qimg-d02b0d4cc8f7d2d9f00ab6f179944ed5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><ul><li><b>The Wand</b> runs from the <i>base of the spine</i> and culminates in <i>the centre of the brain</i> with the key glands (pineal, pituitary, amygdala)&nbsp;</li><li><b>The Cup</b> is located in several places, clearly<b> </b><i>the mouth and the stomach</i> are ''cups'', but so are the brain pan and womb</li><li><b>The Sword</b> is used for the purposes of elimination and runs down the body from the neck (the hilt), the shoulders (the crossguard) and then down the spine - the kidneys and the immune system can be thought of as sword functions as they eliminate toxins and invading microbes from the body, digestion and internal ''immunity'' of the cell use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysozyme">lysozyme</a> i.e. trillions of molecular sword-enzymes</li><li><b>The Pantacle</b> is your feet wherein is contained the wheel of your karma (i.e. DNA inheritance) and also the pains and burdens of your whole body are expressed in the feet and can be relieved/cured by foot care</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nG4inglujs4/WvlK2ctGMXI/AAAAAAAACq4/NLbDSXeMAf0bH1nCcHUut8IJqtbqZ5zZQCLcBGAs/s1600/main-qimg-a3420ba9a050109c37f8ddacf02d579a-c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="602" height="263" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nG4inglujs4/WvlK2ctGMXI/AAAAAAAACq4/NLbDSXeMAf0bH1nCcHUut8IJqtbqZ5zZQCLcBGAs/s400/main-qimg-a3420ba9a050109c37f8ddacf02d579a-c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>- Explain that within Hermetic Tarot while the 22 Cards of the Major Arcana relate to the 22 Letters of the Alefbeit and the numbers of the suits relate to the Ten Sefirot (in the Four Worlds)</div><div><br /></div><div>- Explain how the way in which you view the numbers of the suits can be dependent upon your underlying philosophy (or that of the Tarot creator) - e.g. pantheists see creation and creator as one so therefore all numbers can be equally nice or nasty, but certain extreme (?) Gnostic groups see Earth as a kind of Hell that our original light being selves were drawn into like moths to the flames of realisable desire and passion and are tortured by material existence so for them numbers closer to 1 are ''better'' as they closer to ''out of hell''&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Activities</b><br /><br />- In order to ''level up'' one needs to either study or practice, so here are some simple activities to do everyday with Tarot without needing endless questions about your life or sitting in a cafe waiting for people who are in need of readings</div><div><br /><ul><li><b>Tarot Headlines</b> - Pick a tarot card to predict the first news headline at the hour on the channel you choose.&nbsp; Apply your knowledge of the tarot to see how the Tarot is describing the headline.&nbsp; Write this down in a journal.</li><li><b>Tarot Selfies</b> - Hold the Tarot deck in your hand as if it is a phone, and ''take a selfie'' with the deck.&nbsp; After taking the self draw a card this represents the image of your head.&nbsp; Take a photo of this selfie.&nbsp; Take one everyday and compare.</li><li><b>Tarot MRI </b>- Effectively an extension of Tarot Selfies, use the deck to scan three sections of your body - head, torso, abdomen - and then draw cards to represent each of them.&nbsp; Take an MRI like this everyday and you will see patterns emerge in the form of suits/numbers etc and you will also see yourself ''digesting'' the various energies that come your way - the head card will be what is immediatly on your mind, etc and the subsequent cards events of several hours or a day past (i.e. the digestion cycle)</li></ul></div>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-30497715603294564552018-04-17T01:41:00.000-07:002018-04-17T01:41:33.016-07:00The Twelve Senses II (Astrology)<br />Building on the conversations around the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2018/04/the-twelve-senses.html"><span style="color: red;">Twelve Senses</span></a>, various people (mainly materialists) had been asking me about causation within astrology and how it was possible that such remote objects as stars could have any physical effect on the body.&nbsp; I explained that my studies in genetics suggested that really the stars were acting as markers for internal processes within the DNA (zodiac signs + basic genetic rhythms <a href="https://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2015/06/the-tree-of-life-saadia-tree-twelve.html"><span style="color: red;">I</span></a> <a href="https://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2015/06/the-tree-of-life-saadia-tree-twelve_22.html"><span style="color: red;">II</span></a> <a href="https://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2015/06/the-tree-of-life-saadia-tree-twelve_30.html"><span style="color: red;">III</span></a>), a clock if you like, as opposed to actually ''causing'' anything persay.&nbsp; But the conversation proceeded to how as organisms we interact with our environment and I shared the idea that, depending on when we are born, we are children of the weather and the effect of that weather on the mood of the people around us i.e. Leos are Summer children and Aquarians are Winter children so they are socialised differently as people/society are behaving differently when their <i>clocks are set.</i><br /><i><br /></i>I've been playing <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/496460/Life_is_Feudal_Forest_Village/"><span style="color: red;">Life is Feudal: Forest Village</span></a>&nbsp;recently, (as part of my shift from strategy games to management games due to changing business conditions and therefore different skills that need practising) and it demonstrates how our evolved background of survival in primitive conditions forces certain behaviour at certain times of the year:&nbsp;<br /><br /><ul><li><b>Aries</b> - Individuals beginning to thaw from Winter, have energy to get outside and do stuff but before the sensuality of blooming spring, therefore can be quite '"Spartan''</li><li><b>Taurus</b> - Sensual, regarding the sights, smells, sounds and textures that suddenly flourish in Spring</li><li><b>Gemini</b> - Late Spring, Early Summer transition between the mania of Spring and the laziness of Summer</li><li><b>Cancer</b> - Summer storms, bottled up pressure suddenly released, relaxed afterwards while more pressure builds</li><li><b>Leo</b> - Lazy days of Summer explains the foundation of cat-like behaviour</li><li><b>Virgo</b> - Harvest</li><li><b>Libra</b> - Storage (figuring out how much we have of different foodstuffs, explains why they are so anal)</li><li><b>Scorpio</b> - Nights are getting long enough providing darkness for concealing Scorpion action...</li><li><b>Sagittarius</b> - Last (desperate) burst of energy, picking up the crumbs and last minute hunting before everyone is trapped by snowfall</li><li><b>Capricorn</b> - have we enough food to last for the Winter, if not I will eat you - seriously though there will be slaughter of something, goat or otherwise</li><li><b>Aquarius</b> - child trapped inside by Winter, has to use imagination/philosophy for fun way more than other children&nbsp;</li><li><b>Pisces</b> - still trapped inside by Winter, more dreamy because more generally exhausted by Winter, huddled with other people (shoaling for warmth)</li></ul><br />These are a few sketchy notes (so my post doesn't drag on beyond the few paragraphs allowed by the contemporary reader) but the standard question in response to this (kind of) materialist explanation is the problem with the Southern Hemisphere to which my first answer is that the South has only been populated by people who would use Northern Astrology for a relatively short period of time and could be extremely faulty, the other answer would probably involve the genetics of the northern people who colonised there (although that is far from fleshed out).&nbsp; Obviously the best thing to do in this situation would be to<i> use the astrological system of the actual people who live/lived in that area</i> previously as they are way more likely to be accurate if astrology is most effective in a regional setting.&nbsp; I want to be clear though that this conversation was had with materialists and esoteric beginners and the above is a way to get yourself thinking about astrology and not my personal final position on the subject which would be more idealist than materialist (i.e. <b>esoteric genetics</b> where the twin helix of DNA is our gateway into the nature of time and consciousness itself).<br /><br />A question that interests me now is whether or not we can associate the <a href="https://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2018/04/the-twelve-senses.html"><span style="color: red;">Twelve Senses</span></a> with the Twelve Zodiac Signs in this way (as the Sefer Yetzirah does) - is there any reason why a <i>sense of tone</i> would marry itself to Aries, or a <i>sense of smell</i> would marry itself to Scorpio? <b>Are these Twelve Senses a function of time itself?</b><br /><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-11001337277525908872018-04-16T00:58:00.002-07:002018-04-17T00:29:43.464-07:00The Twelve Senses<blockquote class="tr_bq">Twelve elementals: Heh, Vav, Zayin, Chet, Tet, Yod, Lamed, Nun, Samekh, Ayin, Tzaddi, Qoph.&nbsp; Their foundation is speech, thought, motion, sight, hearing, action, coition, smell, sleep, anger, taste, laughter.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Sefer Yetzirah 5:1, Gra Version</blockquote><br />As many practitioners know there are numerous benefits to memorising the Tree of Life and imprinting it within your mind as a model for thinking with, similar to the benefits of extensive mind-mapping but without the advantages of unification and centralisation that come with QBL.&nbsp; While learning and mastering the QBL most serious attempts will result in improved cognition, lateral thinking, speed of referencing, long term memory retrieval, reflexes etc and therefore creativity (at the minimum).&nbsp; In the study of the later parts of the Sefer Yetzirah (Gra Version) I took pains to ''calibrate'' the Twelve Kingships of the Twelve Simple Letters, separate them out from the tangled mess/noise that makes up the typical consciousness and understand these as individual threads within it. Practically I would focus on each <i>Kingship </i>for a month, i.e. focus on my anger for a month, my action, my sleep etc and through practical work learn more about and grow to more fully <i>understand </i>these faculties of my being.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L6KdYWrEybY/UJwbimGFtyI/AAAAAAAACmU/rrGDZBK8_Jsb4mbcm4v-TaH10FprMA5LACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/helix3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="351" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L6KdYWrEybY/UJwbimGFtyI/AAAAAAAACmU/rrGDZBK8_Jsb4mbcm4v-TaH10FprMA5LACPcBGAYYCw/s200/helix3.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br />Although I had done the work and fine-tuned (to a greater or lesser extent) my anger, my laughter, my sleep, etc I had not considered them all as <i>senses </i>until I was reflecting on these kingships the other day with friends and students.&nbsp; We typically learn five senses but some of those senses contain a mixture of different senses which are bundled up as one because they share a common location (e.g. the ears), and there are other Kingships that may be senses but that we label as something different. The premise of the idea of <b>twelve senses</b> is that <b>we falsely distinguish between senses, emotions and thought</b> when we would be better to think of <b>all of these faculties as senses</b> and in thinking exercises (reflecting, meditating, contemplating) along these lines they will, very much like the cognitive benefits from other Tree of Life, spring into existence - no longer <i>bound </i>by the ''propaganda'' of the five senses, we will experience the full truth of having twelve.<br /><br /><ul><li><b>Speech </b>- <i>sense of tone</i>, it is possible for me to raise my voice aggressively and for people to sense the tone (not just the volume) and have physical responses, similar to the effect a calming quiet voice has on the mind (see ASMR)</li><li><b>Thought </b>- we generally take more credit for our thoughts than we should, most (if not all) thoughts arise as result of external stimuli, anxious thoughts before performance, desire based thoughts when looking at something you love, want, crave*, temp goes up you ''think'' I am hot, or by God its hot! etc</li><li><b>Motion </b>- sense of movement, dizziness, nausea, the feeling of still being on a rollercoaster when you leave, although this sense is centred in the ears (working by means of tiny hairs sensitivity to the rocking motion of fluid in the ears) it should be distinguished from hearing</li><li><b>Sight </b>- is a sense, we can elevate this to ''vision'', we can transform looking into watching or seeing</li><li><b>Hearing </b>- is a sense; we can elevate this from hearing (passive) to listening (active)</li><li><b>Action </b>- note we do not have the sense of touch on the list, the sense of action could be considered the <i>resistance </i>of substances to our actions, i.e. pressure, pain&nbsp;</li><li><b>Coition </b>- arousal, often confused with emotions but the reality is that physical stimulation, the movement of a bus you happen to be riding on, etc can cause arousal alongside the sense object of a desirable body</li><li><b>Smell </b>- is a sense - in terms of its position on the list, it might be worth considering how much <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odour_and_sexual_attraction"><span style="color: red;">smell affects arousal</span></a></li><li><b>Sleep </b>- <i>sense of our own fatigue/exhaustion</i>, experienced as aches, pains, etc</li><li><b>Anger </b>- underneath anger lies the flight/fight response which is a sensory response to perceived danger&nbsp;</li><li><b>Taste </b>- is a sense which we elevate to ''artistic taste'' but which is a sensory response to grotesque and disgusting things, we can taste the air as much as smell it&nbsp;</li><li><b>Laughter </b>- sense of humour (!) its funny that sense of humour appears after taste and anger as these two prior senses are very much wrapped up in laughter - whether it be fart jokes, or laughing at people falling over, the roots of laughter are in fear, anger and disgust, and again laughter can be calibrated and cultivated</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xhtvc_14QbY/UJwfqSJfelI/AAAAAAAAAec/aX9WjvQG4hADnvjTCSxPj1F5oBtU3-LSgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/helix4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="372" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xhtvc_14QbY/UJwfqSJfelI/AAAAAAAAAec/aX9WjvQG4hADnvjTCSxPj1F5oBtU3-LSgCPcBGAYYCw/s200/helix4.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />*The origin of most of my metaphysical thinking can be seen as (at heart) a sensory response to the infinity of space and the scattering of stars therein. Do all such chains of thought have a sense object at their origin?Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-28074281177103443332018-04-10T02:01:00.000-07:002018-04-10T03:01:53.071-07:00Tempography - Archetypal Situations<blockquote class="tr_bq">Observe and see how, in the winter, all the trees&nbsp;seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Book of Enoch</blockquote>Time is a landscape where going ''downhill'' towards <i>significant events</i> causes an increase in the number of synchronicities and an acceleration in the perceived motion of time and vice versa as we go ''uphill'' away from <i>significant events</i> and experience a slow-down.&nbsp; These events (<i>robust branching moments</i>) are significant only in that they let you shift between different pre-existing variations of yourself that Raziel calls <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/12/time-travel-fourteen-versions-of.html"><span style="color: red;">minotaurs</span></a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;In following on from the last post, how can we best describe ''the lay of the land'' - what factors give away the identity of the significant event and how best can we describe this <i>tempography</i>?<br /><br /><i>Archetypal characters</i> are used throughout esoteric sciences in order to better understand people, to zoom in on the qualities of individuals in order to assist or heal them.&nbsp; In the Metabolism of Time these archetypes are drawn from the endocrine system where a hypothetical fluctuation in the levels of, or cellular sensitivity towards, different hormones controls much of underlying ''mood'' - adrenaline types being more jumpy, insulin types being more sluggish, etc.&nbsp; Most of the time we find archetypal characters are drawn towards or are involved in <i>archetypal situations</i> that suit the nature of that character e.g.&nbsp; characters who are derived from the (foreign body recognition) immune system (of the cosmic being) are involved in constant analysis, blame and judgement and would do well to have a career in the justice system where their occupation will supply those situations as opposed to them pathologically acting out immunological reactions in their domestic life or otherwise seeking out and (mis)attributing blame in environments where it is inappropriate.<br /><br />When you encounter an a<i>rchetypal situation</i>, there will be a ''guardian being'' or archetypal character of the corresponding nature residing there for instance in criminal justice situations you will encounter a police officer, or bailiff, or lawyer etc who you must provide ''passwords'' to in order to effectively navigate the situation.&nbsp; Sometimes those characters are out of alignment and in ''the wrong position'' but most of the time nature finds its form in one way or another.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kp0Sy10kQFw/UKDuuBKbG_I/AAAAAAAABHM/9pXGaFdSKHQDXQhU9T_nF6xk2Y688Lt8wCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/metbaolism%2Btime.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="529" height="310" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kp0Sy10kQFw/UKDuuBKbG_I/AAAAAAAABHM/9pXGaFdSKHQDXQhU9T_nF6xk2Y688Lt8wCPcBGAYYCw/s320/metbaolism%2Btime.gif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ARCHETYPAL SITUATIONS</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Returning to the Metabolism of Time we see that the ''characterization'' of time which provides our archetypal situations requires an individual moment to be broken down into ten phases for the purpose of experience but that each moment although containing ten, takes on the nature of one e.g. each moment of ''analysis'' requires all ten phases but overall that period of time can be characterised as ''analysis''.&nbsp; <b>These phases are at the core of the nature of reality itself</b>&nbsp;(<i>Atziluth</i>, the divine thought-process, if you like) and our genetics, our endocrine system, our personalities, etc are all expressions of the Metabolism of Time.&nbsp; &nbsp;Each of these phases become archetypal characters, and then <i>hosts (or tissues),</i> as individuals differentiate and then conglomerate.<br /><br />Returning to the idea of <b>tempography</b>, since the robust branching moment will, of necessity, be an archetypal situation and contain the appropriate guardian character the situation itself indicates the type of significant event i.e. the two variants of yourself that are linked at that moment.&nbsp; In order to break this down along the lines of Raziel's <b>Fourteen Minotaurs</b>&nbsp;and to get into the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEs4QrIY1Q"><span style="color: red;">nitty gritty</span></a>, it is necessary to look at an exercise from the Sefer Yetzirah.<br /><br />In the Sefer Yetzirah there are 7 Kingships of the Planets, which along with their transpositions make up these so-called minotaurs of the self.&nbsp; They can be associated with the planets in several ways but the one that <b>works best</b> is this one:<br /><br /><ul><li>Wisdom/Ignorance- Saturn</li><li>Wealth/Poverty - Jupiter</li><li>Seed/Desolation - Mars</li><li>Health/Disease - Sol</li><li>Mastery/Slavery - Venus</li><li>Peace/War - Mercury</li><li>Beauty/Ugliness - Luna</li></ul><br />On the Tree of Life there are 7 vertical paths (shaded purple) and therefore 7 positions for these Planetary Kingships and, by relating this to the Metabolism of Time*, we can look at the archetypal situations that are ''joined'' by such paths and thereby detect the underlying nature of the significance of the event, the type of synchroncities as you approach, and what timeline or <i>minotaur </i>can be successfully transferred to.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ouuxI6C0imY/VQFUKJdHPxI/AAAAAAAABuo/URsj2hjnxNwsY1G3lKGHpM-gGuSf6koYgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/11002445_10153661210156111_2041725751_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="928" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ouuxI6C0imY/VQFUKJdHPxI/AAAAAAAABuo/URsj2hjnxNwsY1G3lKGHpM-gGuSf6koYgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/11002445_10153661210156111_2041725751_o.jpg" width="185" /></a><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kp0Sy10kQFw/UKDuuBKbG_I/AAAAAAAABHM/9pXGaFdSKHQDXQhU9T_nF6xk2Y688Lt8wCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/metbaolism%2Btime.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="529" height="310" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kp0Sy10kQFw/UKDuuBKbG_I/AAAAAAAABHM/9pXGaFdSKHQDXQhU9T_nF6xk2Y688Lt8wCPcBGAYYCw/s320/metbaolism%2Btime.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Lets finish up by attempting to apply this interpretation of Raziel's guidance to a ''practical'' situation!&nbsp; For example then, I am wandering along the pre-existing timeline of the ''wealth minotaur'' of me (the Jupiterian version if you like), when I notice synchronicities increase and perceived time speeding up indicating that I am approaching a significant event and it is therefore possible to change lines.&nbsp; This significant event has the archetypal situational nature of Remembering <i>and </i>Analysis of the Moment, the Mercurial path on the Tree of Life (and the Metabolism of Time), and has a guardian character who has similar physiognomy to the Mercurial character in superposition and in order to deal with this situation I must provide ''Mercurial'' passwords of one form or another.&nbsp; Now, I must deal with the situation, or rather since the future already exists experience how ''I'' dealt with it, but where I am truly free is at the conclusion of this moment I can swap between <i>my minotaurs</i>, in this particular case I can swap between the <i>wealthy minotaur</i>&nbsp;and the <i>peaceful minotaur</i>.&nbsp; We can also assume, for the sake of the next set of ''experiments'' that the type of synchronicities indicate the situational archetype that you are approaching at the moment.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Observe&nbsp;ye&nbsp;how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed&nbsp;and know&nbsp;with regard to all&nbsp;His works, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.&nbsp; And&nbsp;all&nbsp;His works go on&nbsp;<span style="color: green;">t</span>hus&nbsp;from year to year for ever, and all the tasks&nbsp;which&nbsp;they accomplish for Him, and&nbsp;their tasks&nbsp;change not, but according as&nbsp;God&nbsp;hath ordained so is it done.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Book of Enoch</blockquote><br />*The qabalistic issues with doing this relate to the ''mysteries of Daat'' - but for ease now consider the Depth of the West (or Yesod) the equivalent of the Altered Past, and Malkuth as the Actual Past or ''The Grand Moment'' - situational archetypes that relate to Luna the path that ''joins'' the Altered Past with the Actual Past are generally ''dream'' related.Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-18216425685820465932018-04-09T00:24:00.002-07:002018-04-09T00:24:37.380-07:00Temporal Gradients<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the creatures.&nbsp; The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning. And the living creatures went back and forth in appearance like a flash of lightning.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Ezekial's Vision</blockquote><br />We watched three alien sci-fi movies over the last few days and all of them involved the Ezekial style UFO (wheels within wheels, etc) - Phoenix Forgotten, Attraction and Knowing.&nbsp; Since we didn't pick those movies for their ship design it counts as a synchronicity I imagine.&nbsp; &nbsp; Knowing is a Christian disaster movie about the end of the world with a theme of Determinism vs Free Will and I thought a re-watch might come in handy plus my partner had never seen it. At the same time I was directing and producing two short plays by Harold Pinter and shared the sound track from Sleuth which my partner pointed out was clearly pinched from Beethoven's 7th and then Beethoven's 7th was in Knowing!&nbsp; Woah...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nzk4SHGmpfw/Wq-QzOGaS-I/AAAAAAAACqo/aoTee-GikCkDgrdW99KEkEMDs88oSe2iwCLcBGAs/s1600/Ezekiel-Vision-Merkaba.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1045" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nzk4SHGmpfw/Wq-QzOGaS-I/AAAAAAAACqo/aoTee-GikCkDgrdW99KEkEMDs88oSe2iwCLcBGAs/s400/Ezekiel-Vision-Merkaba.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />As magicians we are fairly used to this kind of synchronicity and we observe many of them throughout our careers.&nbsp; One of the challenges of the 231 Gates Project - 2018 is that we are going to try and crack whether or not the nature of the synchronicities indicate the nature of the upcoming significant event and <i>why</i>.&nbsp; As discussed in previous posts we believe that synchronicities increase in number as you approach a <i>significant event</i> and decrease as you leave one - and we are adding to this that we believe that the percieved forward motion of time <i>seems </i>to increase as you approach a significant event as well*.&nbsp; Imagine the preexisting future like a rolling plain as you go <i>uphill </i>(away from a significant event) time slows and synchronicities decrease, and as you go <i>downhill </i>time speeds up and synchronicities increase. Generally magicians don't think about the de-synchronous (the reduction in the synchronicities as you leave an event - <i>uphill</i>) which is why you don't see this idea discussed anywhere, and often the magicians can mistake the synchronicity for the event itself.&nbsp; The standard counter claim(s) to using synchronicities as some kind of measure or navigational aide would be a) you are only seeing the synchronous when you want to see it (confirmation bias), and in truth everything is in continuous synchronicity or b) there is no synchronicity only coincidence without any underlying meaning.<br /><br />Last week I ended up in the top 1% of actors on IMDb (star rating) which was pretty crazy in terms of ''big magic'' considering where I started in 2015 (to put it in perspective I have moved up 1,500,000 positions this year).&nbsp; Much like (<a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2013/10/pathwalking-to-tower.html"><span style="color: red;">pathwalking</span></a> my way to) living in Edward Kelley's Tower it is certainly tempting to think of these kind of large results as the significant events of magic.&nbsp; When I look back over my life though I can't think that the seemingly small inconsequential events that are somehow stuck in my memory are less significant and whether what sorcerers might consider ''big magic'' - in terms of power, wealth, attraction, etc - are really all that ''big'' in the grand scheme of things?&nbsp; &nbsp; How are we measuring <i>significance?</i>&nbsp; Is it even possible to measure significance from a presentist perspective?&nbsp; Probably not as we can only truly measure it after the fact, after the life... but if Determinism is true then this life, and everything, has already happened and the future preexists. How do we <i>measure </i>that life - qualitatively or quantitatively?&nbsp; Personal happiness?&nbsp; Wealth?&nbsp; Spread of genetics?&nbsp; We need to know the answer to this, or at least have an understanding of the problems with finding an answer before we continue.&nbsp; <br /><br />We have a primitive understanding of a way of <i>categorizing </i>significance in the form of the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/12/time-travel-fourteen-versions-of.html"><span style="color: red;">Fourteen Minotaurs</span></a> which are, in short, the archetypal life-paths of fourteen variants of you - the wise one, the foolish one, the rich one, the poor one, the healthy, the sick, etc - and we have talked before about the possibility of measuring these from a hypothetical median self but against what?&nbsp; Each other?&nbsp; Is there even such a thing as health, or beauty?&nbsp; According to Raziel, if I can be so bold, the significance of an event lies only in its linkage of two different <i>Minotaurs </i>together - two different categories of you, its significant <i>only </i>in that you can change from one person to another, change the channel of yourself that you are watching and not significant in and of itself or against any benchmark of meaning.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />What is this thing then that measures us without measure and kills us even though it doesn't exist?&nbsp; My headaches because the world aches.<br />Fernando Pessoa</blockquote><br />So lets analyse the synchronicities mentioned at the start of this post and reflect on what signifcant event could possibly be coming up.&nbsp; They are all related to Ezekial, so can I expect an Ezekial-esque event to be approaching?&nbsp; Can I be expecting another <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/12/astral-projection-angelic-alien-insects.html"><span style="color: red;">abduction type encounter</span></a> with Raziel**?&nbsp; Are these significant events significant because they serve as branching moments between two minotaurs if so which?&nbsp; &nbsp;The problem with this line of reasoning is that the synchronicities could be mere happenstance and any ''abduction'' that happens is only because I am on my knees praying for it to happen and not that it was preordained.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Now as I looked at the creatures, behold a wheel was upon the Earth beside each living creature with its four faces.&nbsp; The appearance of the wheels was like the colour of beryl and all four had the same likeness.&nbsp; The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel within a wheel.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Ezekial's Vision</blockquote><br /><br /><br />*This is consistent with a kind of <b>Doppler Effect</b> for the perception of time.<br />**I had a dream last night, where Raziel was explaining <i>time crystals</i> to me - these are four dimensional time nuggets that contain the various coherent realisable timelines of an individual, or universe - I don't think they are the other state of matter <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-just-announced-a-brand-new-form-of-matter-time-crystals"><span style="color: red;">previously announced</span></a> this year?&nbsp; I saw them in the dream, he held some in his hand, they were nugget looking things and they were orange, copper, or brass, they kept shifting colours within this range and whether they were metallic or not - is this <b><i>golden&nbsp;</i></b><i><b>beryl or the amber from Ezekial's vision</b></i>?<br /><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-46567092677002320652018-03-15T06:24:00.001-07:002018-03-15T06:40:37.539-07:00Reverse Thinking<blockquote class="tr_bq">We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that our eyes once watered.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard</blockquote><br />My drama students and I are currently working on a play which is set inside a person's mind and the characters are the thoughts and thought structures of that person i.e. creativity, logic, addictions, instincts, realisations, questions, conscience, etc, etc.&nbsp; The story involves the central character who is the persons' idea of herself (a nascent ego) exploring their mind, wrestling with the various other characters for the control of that mind until finally coming to terms with the idea that one thought must dominate - either her love for the idea of herself, or her love for another person.&nbsp; The 7 part scenic structure is as follows:<br /><br /><ul><li>Thoughtstream</li><li>Museum</li><li>The Abyss</li><li>Episodic Memory</li><li>Vision</li><li>Dreams</li><li>Cortex</li></ul><br />We are working on the Episodic Memory scene where the protagonist (the idea of herself) is attempting to navigate their way through a memory while some characters point out the gaps and others are attempting to destroy it to free up space for marketing and advertising.&nbsp; Towards the end of the scene a forgotten part of the memory (as a character) enters the scene and rewinds it back to the beginning and then plays it forward again so we can see what it is like when that missing piece has been restored.&nbsp; Another character has sneakily inserted themselves into the memory so they can take the protagonist towards even higher realisations.&nbsp; This is actually a very challenging scene as not only is it difficult to play something truly in reverse but the play is also creatively staged with in-the-round, reverse-round and traverse elements used in an immersive environment for the audience (so that they feel like they are her thoughts too).&nbsp; Various characters have to be un-murdered or un-kissed, etc, and the students remark on how difficult and weird it is to block.&nbsp; By the third rehearsal it started to look fluid and students were having their own set of realisations and enjoying the process immensely.<br /><br />As readers of the Hermetic Lessons know I have been pursuing this reverse thinking for a few months now, trying to get myself (by running and returning) into a position where I can sustain <i>de ja vu</i> and these kinds of <i>trans-temporal</i> states of mind for a longer and longer duration with a view to psychically exploring a&nbsp;<i>tempography</i>.&nbsp; For example <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/01/raziel-genetic-dimensions.html"><span style="color: red;">I just visited the toilet</span></a> and as I was returning to my studio about half way back I started picturing myself walking backwards to the toilet I had just left - trying to focus on both my forward motion and my <a href="https://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/10/anti-time-clones-and-blessing-of.html"><span style="color: red;">anti-time clone's</span></a> hypothetical reverse motion although I admit I stopped the experiment before reverse defecation. These aren't the first such thought experiments though, in fact decades ago I worked quite heavily upon one of Crowley's texts called <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib913.htm"><span style="color: red;">Liber Thisarb</span></a>.&nbsp; Thisarb exhorts its readers to practice similar kinds of reverse thinking, even to try and read backwards but, and Crowley is pretty insistent on this as well, to not read esroh and think horse (which would be your brain cheekily escaping the confines of the trial) but to fully grok it as esroh.&nbsp; With the proper application of reward and punishment it is entirely possible to begin to get results by ''the third rehearsal''.&nbsp; While such thinking seems alien to begin with it rapidly becomes more fluid and natural.&nbsp; In a previous post I talked about two different kind of people who remember - the ones who painfully try and extract memories, audibly groaning and agonising over the search and the other ones who just say ''it'll come to me'' and then it does, at some point.&nbsp; What I am trying to say is that you only need to use will (and conditioning) to drive these experiments initially and then the mind will start performing those tasks itself and whole new vistas of reality will suddenly hove into view.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Consistency is all I ask.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard</blockquote>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-66112642146331192662018-03-13T03:10:00.000-07:002018-03-13T06:21:59.070-07:00Hermetic Lessons - Studying vs SmartphonesIt was in early 2002 I found myself working in a champagne bar in Leicester; I'd open the bar in the late morning, complete the cleaning and maintenance and then have a lot of time on my hands as the bar was not busy until the evening.&nbsp; During those hours I studied the Kabbalah alongside a number of different subjects including bio-psychology, endocrinology, philosophy, history and comparative esoteric sciences using actual physical books.&nbsp; Not only was I intent on immersing myself in the world of the Sefer Yetzirah I was also intent on ''wiring'' my newly acquired knowledge into the Tree of Life (in my mind) with the general intention of improving my cognitive abilities, memory, speed of reference, psychic powers, etc.&nbsp; I was aided in this respect because I had already sworn myself off fiction and had worked (through Raja Yoga) to develop the concentration and study skills necessary to just read textbooks.&nbsp; In many ways I had been a very <i>fortunate </i>student (as I recalled a great deal of information from the memory palace of a former incarnation) but I wouldn't say I had ever been a <i>good </i>student up until this point. I had relied an awful lot on my silver tongue and good memory to blag my way through various situations but I realised that what lay ahead was a <b>study bridge</b> that no-one was going to cross for me.&nbsp; I had to transform into the person that I needed to be and&nbsp;<b>I had no teacher but myself.</b><br /><br />Getting to the point of this post, I'll be honest there is no way I would have completed these essential studies or this transformation in the <b>presence of a smartphone</b> (I managed to avoid these devices until fairly recently, getting my first one in early 2017), optimistically it would have dented my productivity by at least 50%. I would have repeatedly dropped out of study mode to respond to people online or just browse the web.&nbsp; Rather than reading the chapters of my set text I would have randomly wandered off at tangents or got into chats, etc.&nbsp; Continuing this behaviour would have completely shattered my nascent willpower and reinforced appalling study habits. I avoided getting a smartphone because I could see around me the destructive effect it was having on people's minds (and personalities) and restricted myself to desktop internet. I struggle to mitigate the negative effects on my behaviour now I do have one.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vu_Dy0-8G20/WqefuvaaWlI/AAAAAAAACqY/xN5Fgmp11SMaNEtn7d3JR45wvwhqiZQeACLcBGAs/s1600/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vu_Dy0-8G20/WqefuvaaWlI/AAAAAAAACqY/xN5Fgmp11SMaNEtn7d3JR45wvwhqiZQeACLcBGAs/s400/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />When I have hit <i>my </i>students with the <a href="https://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/03/the-wmt-occultism-isnt-dying-its-just.html"><span style="color: red;">reality sandwich</span></a> of actual reading and studying they are going to have to do in order to grasp the Qabalah and the Western Mystery Tradition at levels beyond beginner they nearly puke at the thought of it.&nbsp; It is far easier for the student's ego to re-frame their esoteric identity as an open minded explorer of the occult whose sense of curiosity and wonder will open doors to insights at the ''right time'' (i.e. as a&nbsp;<b>permanent beginner</b>) as opposed to truly appreciating the<b> academic grind</b> that is necessary for advancement.&nbsp; The vast majority of texts that you <i>need</i> to complete this study are available for free online so there is no way you can justify your lack of study by lack of books (as used to be possible) so the ego has to invent other ways*.&nbsp; Obviously its not only reading that is important, finding the time and will for practical work is also seemingly beyond most students.&nbsp; Most of this training also has to be done in private and that means detaching yourself from the grid.&nbsp; There is no point meditating, attempting astral projection or completing ritual work with your smartphone on and your mind in ''smartphone mode'' - restless, attention seeking, anxious, etc.<br /><br />Finally I want to say that the students' behaviour in class is impeccable - they are attentive, disciplined and ask great questions - it is the personal study that is shockingly lacking.&nbsp; I asked them at the beginning of the lessons how much nagging they wanted about completing work and what the level of hostility should be - I think they were surprised by this question but I reminded them that it is impossible to move on in building the temple, so to speak, without adequate foundations.&nbsp; This post is not a moan about the students themselves, although it could be seen as such, rather its an understanding of the new difficulties faced by students today and a reflection on what I can/must/should do as a teacher to help them.&nbsp; As a director, I can't learn actors' lines for them and as a teacher I cannot complete my student's personal study.&nbsp; I know that the challenges are fundamentally a lack of willpower (that everyone starts off with) compounded by a lack of willpower to develop the willpower you know you don't have, compounded by smartphones eroding any chance you ever had - so what to do?<br /><br />- inspire/lead by example<br />- punish/reward for non-achievement/achievement<br />- teach studying/thinking (and espouse its virtues) alongside content<br />- be physically present during studying (incredibly difficult in reality, probably highly effective)<br />- isolation study retreats (along with the above)<br /><br />I do do many of these things already and I should make sure I focus on them as much as I do on the content which of course I am highly passionate about.&nbsp; As a teacher its easy to get lost in that content and forget its all meaningless unless it ends up stored in someone's brain in some kind of coherent way - because if it doesn't I am not really a teacher I am providing <b>esoteric&nbsp;infotainment</b>.&nbsp; For various reasons the Baby Boomers have failed to pass on the tradition in a recognisable way and a lot of the Gen X practitioners/teachers are really into ''material'' (don't ask too many questions) sorcery (which is not all that intellectually challenging or demanding) and/or identity/psychological issues as opposed to what I would consider a more <a href="https://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/06/the-wmt-tool-using-apes-or-mathematical.html"><span style="color: red;">mystical/mathematical</span></a> approach to magic.&nbsp; As I transformed myself into a more effective student, I now have to transform myself into a more effective teacher and just like before no-one is going to do that for me.<br /><br />*Although studying online means you are likely more exposed to the various distracting forces of the internet - the <b>demons </b>of chat messengers, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook groups, etc.&nbsp; But it is ''free'' (or certainly cheaper) from a money point of view.&nbsp; If libraries exist use them if you can.Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-25204341247817000782018-03-07T06:21:00.002-08:002018-03-07T06:32:48.430-08:00Tempus Fugit? Homo Fuge!<blockquote class="tr_bq">Homo fuge! Whither should I fly?<br />If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe</blockquote><br />Some days drag, others speed by; the days are long, the years are short.&nbsp; I experienced a bizarre memory glitch with my partner last night when we both swore that Trump had been inaugurated in January and had done all he had done in two short months.&nbsp; We had to check that's how weirded out we were.&nbsp; Before you think I am about to evoke the Mandela Effect this was clearly our memories making a mistake but the ultimate cause of that mistake is the way time speeds up, slows down and so on throughout the year.&nbsp; We know that our personal moods are a factor, when things are exciting and we are busy time moves more rapidly and vice versa and these moods aggregate so that when the times are exciting and busy we as a society feel that things are moving more quickly or more slowly and this change in tempo can be disorientating - <i>what year is this?&nbsp; </i>This is the <i>subjective </i>side of the experience of being ''in time''.<br /><i><br /></i>But if, as Raziel suggests, the future preexists and contains so-called robust branching moments that are like vortices and act as vertices between surviving realisable timelines then as we approach these vortices not only will we expect synchronicities to increase but also that time will speed up as we are dragged into the spiral.&nbsp; Is the increasing frequency of synchronicity married to an acceleration of the perceived flow of time?&nbsp; If so can we say there is a more <i>objective </i>component to the way seemingly time changes speed - a gradient or topology in the fourth dimension - not from mass alone but perhaps in our minds interaction with that mass?&nbsp; Raziel has already indicated that matter <i>is </i>time and consciousness <i>is </i>anti-time.&nbsp; <br /><br />According to Raziel as we enter these branching moments we do have a decision to switch between timelines, a decision we do not have as we travel along a regular path where our momentary decisions aggregate to the same end.&nbsp; Throughout these thought experiments on time travel we have explored a number of possible phenomena that we can use to both identify that we are approaching one of these moments and to determine the type of moment it is:<br /><br />- the way synchronicities increase/decrease as you approach/leave a robust branching moment, so you can pay attention to this as one factor - this implies that the ''soul'' is most aligned with ''reality'' at the branching moment itself, a point of maximum synchronicity if you like, the eye of the storm might reveal a dead calm for that moment (?)<br /><br />- the way time speeds up/slows down as we approach/recede a branching moment, is there then a ''stillness in time'' at the branching moment itself, the moment of maximum synchronicity?<br /><br />- the ways we can&nbsp;<i>characterise&nbsp;</i>synchronicities through archetypal people and archetypal situations, in your life there are various significant people you will encounter that have a distinct look (physiognomy) to them and that you can encounter them again in similar looking people when similar branching moments occur, this leads to the idea that actually the similar looking different individuals you are encountering are in fact one ''entity'' in superposition throughout your timeline(s) and that their physiognomy indicates the type of branching moment that is being opened<br /><br />Making observations like this leads to some kind of fourth dimensional awareness which is deeply tied to personal narrative and character but ultimately to an ability to <i>navigate </i>that time - crossing between the lines of the ''Fourteen Minotaurs'' or the ''Seven Kingships'' and transpositions of the Sefer Yetzirah, moving between health and sickness, wealth and poverty, etc.<br /><br />If time flies, then we must earn our wings and learn to fly.<br /><blockquote><br />My senses are deceived, here is nothing writ:<br />Oh yes I see it plain, even here is writ<br />Homo, fuge!&nbsp; Yet shall not Faustus fly.</blockquote><br /><blockquote>Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe</blockquote><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-72317107177024127222018-01-30T02:10:00.000-08:002018-01-30T02:10:03.878-08:00The 231 Gates Project 2018 - Thought Experiments II<br />I am continuing to practice the thought experiments, exercises mentioned in the last post and continuing to convert more of the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2018/01/working-definitions-and-important.html"><span style="color: red;">theory from Raziel</span></a> into meditative exercises.&nbsp; I want to provide a little feedback from my thinking, mind-state and ''results'' this week:<br /><br />- Contemplating the world as if a museum, your journey through it as if on tram tracks and <b>inducing</b>&nbsp;<i>de ja vu</i> for extended periods of time, leaves one feeling ghostly and the world as if ''hollowing out''.&nbsp; Continuing with this work of active contemplation the above feelings have continued to intensify, through the ''ghostliness'' I am beginning to sense my ''wave'' self, a feeling of catching up to myself and a sense of leaving myself behind.&nbsp; It feels quite jarring, like a 4d car kangarooing (?), as this mind-state is really just developing and I assume I will get used to it as ''time passes''.&nbsp; Also the shell or husklike effect on objects that made them ''feel'' ''hollow'' hasn't gone away but they have begun to glow (?) from within - a kind of grey/blue light that is either seeping out or shining through, could this ''light'' be produced by the transtemporal friction?&nbsp; This is disorienting in the least, maddening at the worst but I can't help but feeling Eternalism or (more likely) some kind of bespoke Compatibilism is a more truthful (?) way of living.&nbsp; At the moment it feels comparable to a personal Copernican revolution, in that people living as if Philosophical Presentism is the truth are somehow the equivalent of Flat-Earthers.<br /><br />- A way of preserving the museum of the sandbox universe and not allowing potential time travellers to cause Grandfather Paradoxes (which would interfere with the invention of time travel itself) and also to explain the apparent absence of time travellers would be the limitation to observation only through those entities that are frozen in time, i.e. that there are (other?) eyes looking out through ours or that we are the eyes that are looking out and we are not ''ourselves'', either way its disturbing right now.&nbsp; Wouldn't this kind of voyeurism be a very spectacular form of futuristic TV?&nbsp; While discussing this someone brought up the idea that it would have to be ''filmed'' or simulated first before it could be accessed but I disagree, I think this museum is ''the real thing'' and maybe the way in which that ''real thing'' is accessed by the time travellers is built into the physics of anti-time (?) itself - we know people can remote view, we also have experience (including myself) of (feeling very much like) remote-viewing through time, maybe this can be somehow induced in the future which already has happened (?).<br /><br />- Trying to create thought experiments/exercises on Fourteen Minotaurs, I am actively contemplating the idea of a very small number of surviving variant selves and other limited potential journeys that could have ended up where I am now, in terms of the city where I am living in the sense of ''All roads lead to Rome''.&nbsp; To begin with I imagined the fourteen selves to be a little more scattered across the world so I am constraining/restricting that still further.&nbsp; I am actively wondering how a variety of highly limited different decisions in various life paths could have all ended here and how different would those journeys to the same place actually be.&nbsp; In a previous post I talked about tram tracks and robust branching moments so I am working on exercise now to see what I can ''mine'' from that in terms of different ways of thinking about magical methodology.<br /><br /><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-27470062588501462232018-01-25T05:27:00.001-08:002018-01-30T00:44:48.303-08:00The 231 Gates Project 2018 - Thought Experiments <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">In Spain, the dead are more alive than any other country in the world.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Federico Garcia Lorca</blockquote><br /><b>Anti-realism</b> in theatre was a movement that sought to recapture some of the essence of the art that had been lost to the overwhelming dominance of Stanislavsky and realist/naturalist playwrights like Ibsen and Chekhov.&nbsp; It sought to restore verse, poetry, imagination and above all else magic to a form that was increasingly dominated by an obsession with the real.&nbsp; Rather than face ''reality'' head on as was increasingly the trend it wanted to return a sense of wonder and escapism.&nbsp; It recognised a weakness in itself as although it was <i>anti-that</i> it hadn't clearly laid out what it was <i>for</i>.&nbsp; When asking itself what it <i>was </i>instead of what is was <i>against </i>Anti-realism ended up transforming into a variety of powerful different movements in theatre from the Epic Theatre of Brecht to the Theatre of the Absurd of Pinter, Stoppard, Albee and many others that continue to influence art and civilisation to this day.<br /><br /><b>Anti-materialists</b> in the esoteric sciences find themselves in a similar position - full of spleen and rhetoric against mainstream materialism but they seem full of fluff and wool when it comes to defining what they are actually <i>for</i>.&nbsp; Spirituality is such a nebulous term that it is effectively meaningless. The vast majority of the work on the Hermetic Lessons are about transferring the gains of material science particularly Biochemistry and Genetics into a mind-only model i.e. not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.&nbsp; In<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2014/03/stoicism-and-unification-ii.html"><span style="color: red;">Running and Returning</span></a> I recount various thought exercises that allowed me to <i>run </i>into a mind-only point of view and then <i>return </i>to a materialist point of view, increasing the length of time that I was able to stay in the mind only state for longer and longer.&nbsp; Changing the foundation of my state of mind in this way allowed my intuition to provide different food for thought.<br /><br />As we explore <b>anti-time</b> throughout 2018 I should apply the same kind of exercises in order to allow my mind to harness ideas in similar ways explore what it is as well as what it is not.&nbsp; We need to explore exactly what Raziel means by Anti time: a physical/material retrocausal flow of time or ''reversiverse''; combined with the ideas of consciousness being a time traveller producing ''anti-time'' when it imagines the future and remembers the past; or <i>only </i>in that self-same imagination?&nbsp; We're aiming for a unity, in the sense of the Hermetic <b>One Thing</b>&nbsp;(where the apparent opposite is the same thing reversed) but we might not get one as our final answer.&nbsp; If consciousness itself is seen as anti-time in this way then the work will be in refining the raw material of that consciousness that produces poor predictions and hazy recollections into the refined stone which allows astral passage to different actual positions in time for observation and experiments, crystal clear prophecy and perhaps the ability to impede or alter the (apparent) flow of time itself - with the mind only.&nbsp; If not, then bring on the moldavite...<br /><br />Just like we had to <i>induce</i> a sort of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome"><span style="color: red;">Alice in Wonderland syndrome</span></a>&nbsp;through our exercises in order to escape delusional materialism by imagining for instance that there is no movement or size and otherwise reversing the relationship of matter with the self (i.e. to see the world as ''flowing'' through us instead of us as objects moving through the world) now we have to reverse and distort our ''natural'' yet probably mistaken relationship to time.&nbsp; In order to challenge the assumptions of <b>philosophical presentism</b>, and the way in which those assumptions dominate the current view of magick I need to ask myself much more frequently whether the events I am experiencing have happened before or not.&nbsp; So far I have found <b>museums</b> and<b> tram tracks</b> to be useful tools in these thought experiments - as I walk the various paths of this life, I reflect on whether what I am seeing is an exhibition and how free I actually am to choose what I see.&nbsp; &nbsp;Looking more closely at my experiences with the Museum Thought experiment for a moment I have found that two things happen, firstly you can induce <i>de ja vu</i>&nbsp;for extended periods of time, as opposed to mere flashes, and secondly that everything begins to become extremely ''ghostly'' or ''spectral'' - maybe a kind of ''hollowing''.&nbsp; More largely as I consider my basal sense of freedom, I feel that although there is some freedom of movement within museums (like first person RPGs) I am being guided, in one way or the other, that exhibits are signposted and there are restricted signs over all kinds of paths - effectively that the museum I walk through has invisible tram tracks.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">You must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Luigi Pirandello </blockquote><br /><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-7089081390087995412018-01-17T03:56:00.000-08:002018-01-17T04:02:15.064-08:00The 231 Gates Project 2018 - Working Definitions and Important Archives<blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>Leonard </b>- This is Hot Tub Time Machine all over again.&nbsp; Look if future Biff goes back to 2015 after he gives young Biff the almanac, he could get back to the 2015 with Marty and Doc in it, because it wasn't until his 22nd birthday that he placed his first bet.<br /><b>Sheldon </b>- But whoa whoa is placed right?<br /><b>Leonard </b>- What do you mean?<br /><b>Sheldon </b>- Is placed the right tense for something that would have happened in the future of a past that was affected by something from the future?<br /><b>Leonard </b>- Had will have placed?<br /><b>Sheldon </b>- That's my boy.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Big Bang Theory, Series 8 Episode 5</blockquote><br />The following is a set of principles which will form the current working definition for the 2018 231 Gates Project although this will change as I acquire more information from various sources.<br /><ul><li>Magick rituals intended to contact entities or produce results are <b>preexisting events</b> that served to entangle their operators in two or more distinct points in time&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Synchronicities and desynchronicities were evidence of the temporal entanglement increasing as you approached the ritual and decreasing as you left it behind, like mass warps space-time&nbsp;</li><li>During the moment of entanglement there was an information or energy exchange which fuelled the experiences and results on both sides</li><li>All time happened at the same time, there was no before or after, or one spirit in the past and one in the future, but both entities engaged simultaneously in the ritual experience - willingly or otherwise</li><li>Seen from a global perspective magickal rituals were one of the ways to <i>describe </i>the&nbsp;mass entanglement of all sentient beings</li><li>This universe is a determined sandbox pocket universe with finite but repeatable time which only has a few alternate paths through it, tied together by the invention of time travel</li><li>The only surviving universes are ones where time travel was invented, this serves to tie together that universe with its <i>reversiverse </i>at temporal<i> pinchpoints</i></li><li>The vast majority of so-called ''infinite possibilities'' are dead, uninhabitable or otherwise un-realisable</li><li>You only have access to a few timelines where you exist, rituals produced robust branching moments where it was possible to change from one timeline to another like tramlines</li><li>Small decisions of yes or no, left or right, etc <i>aggregate </i>towards the same conclusion and keep you on the path until the next branching moment, during this pathwalking there is no genuine free will&nbsp;</li><li>There is no spiritual otherworld where spirits live, all beings are spread throughout time</li><li>All ''spiritual beings'' share DNA and all existed at some point in the timeline, DNA is the root through which temporal entanglement occurred, the ''tangled threads''</li><li>Contact with the dead (or spirits that were originally real people) is contact with the living</li><li>Contact with ''elementals'' is the result of entanglement with entities living in the deep past, contact with angels is the result of entanglement with entities from the far future&nbsp;</li><li>The Astral Plane is the <i>reversiverse</i>, a trans-temporal river of ''memory'', subject to extreme distortion, that allows you to move out of time and observe another period of time; the ''Bloodstream of Time''</li></ul><div><br />Below is a list of all relevant material from the Hermetic Lessons regarding time travel undertaken over the last few years by myself or under the guidance of Raziel.&nbsp; Over the next year I will be working to sort through this material and fashion it into some kind of ''paper'' and work with various entities to fill in the gaps, complete experimental data. The first two links are a little bit of the backstory as to how ''we'' got here and how it ties into the Qabalistic work with Sefer Yetzirah and the experiences at Edward Kelley's Tower.<br /><br /></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2015/09/the-231-gates.html"><span style="color: red;">The 231 Gates Project - Origins</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/01/the-231-gates-and-time-travel-i.html"><span style="color: red;">The 231 Gates Project - Time Travel</span></a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>The following are explorations of the dialogues with Raziel about the mechanics and structures of time travel, how and why it works, and why it is necessary.&nbsp; Some of this material is the ''compressed'' info from Raziel, some is my attempt to ''unpack'' it.</div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2015/09/raziel-time-travel.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures</span></a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2015/10/raziel-time-travel-ii.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures II</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/02/raziel-time-travel-iii.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures III</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/02/time-travel-temporal-entanglement.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures IV</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/04/raziel-tramlines-i.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures V</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/12/time-travel-fourteen-versions-of.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures VI A</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/01/fourteen-minotaurs-response-and.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures VI B</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/10/time-travel-exploring-astral-past.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures VII A</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/08/raziel-time-travel-and-future.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures VII B</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/09/time-travel-musing-on-museum.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Structures VIII</span></a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>These are posts relevant to the 231 Gates Project for 2018 on <b>temporal entanglement</b> as a unifying explanation for esoteric phenomena particularly on contact with so-called ''spirits''.</div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/03/time-travel-spirits-and-wmt.html"><span style="color: red;">Temporal Entanglement - Spirits</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/10/time-travel-some-general-theory-and.html"><span style="color: red;">Temporal Entanglement - Spirits II</span></a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Miscellaneous posts musing on the intersection between an Eternalist perspective and common features of the discussion and experiments about magick - the astral plane, ''boons'', synchroncities, etc - and how Eternalism can have more explanatory force than ''unexamined probabilitism''.&nbsp; Some of this material overlaps with work on the Metabolism of Time.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/09/one-hundred-and-one-pieces-of-mind-man.html"><span style="color: red;">The Reversiverse</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/08/raziel-speculation-on-silicon-trees.html"><span style="color: red;">The Reversiverse II</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/01/raziel-replication-and-deviation.html"><span style="color: red;">Replication and Deviation</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/01/raziel-genetic-dimensions.html"><span style="color: red;">Genetic Dimensions</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/02/raziel-daughter-dimensions-and-binary.html"><span style="color: red;">Daughter Universes and the Binary Universe</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/05/the-depths-of-up-and-down-is-it.html"><span style="color: red;">Navigating by Synchronicity</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/07/robust-branching-moments_7.html"><span style="color: red;">Robust Branching Moments</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/06/the-wmt-terms-and-conditions_21.html"><span style="color: red;">Philosophy of Time and Magick</span></a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>A few examples of attempting to explain magickal results from an eternalist perspective with a view to temporal entanglement.</div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/05/time-travel-alice-and-other-creatures.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Travel Experiments - Alice&nbsp;</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/05/time-travel-alice-in-superposition.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Travel Experiments - Alice II</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/05/time-travel-alice-in-aftermath.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Travel Experiments - Alice III</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/10/the-quarry-of-magic-strange-ii.html"><span style="color: red;">Time Travel Experiments - Entanglement</span></a></li><li><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2018/01/evidence-transtemporal-friction.html"><span style="color: red;">Evidence - Transtemporal Friction</span></a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Blogger does not really structure the information in a searchable way so this is for my own use as much as readers of the Hermetic Lessons who wish to review or recap before following the 231 Gates Project for 2018.</div><br /><br /><div><br /></div>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-37057468371454297812018-01-16T00:03:00.003-08:002018-01-16T00:16:52.685-08:00De-Spherification<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The word Sefirah is not related to the Greek word sphere although as early as the Bahir it is related to the Hebrew word sappirot, or sapphires.&nbsp; </blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah</blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7mEtMFM20II/WlxtuEle_fI/AAAAAAAACpU/NFXYMWJqCGsogfjFZ0EGycVyTPRy7oMLQCLcBGAs/s1600/22plui.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7mEtMFM20II/WlxtuEle_fI/AAAAAAAACpU/NFXYMWJqCGsogfjFZ0EGycVyTPRy7oMLQCLcBGAs/s400/22plui.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><br />I've been ''campaigning'' <i>against </i>spheres for some time now and once again the topic has resurfaced* along with a lot of the other baggage of the 'Hermetic Qabalah'.&nbsp; I am not saying that spheres are entirely useless but they do stand in the way of a lot of other useful concepts that are at least as worthy, if not more, of your time.&nbsp; In <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/03/the-tree-of-life-brickwork-of-sapphire.html"><span style="color: red;">Brickwork of Sapphire</span></a> I explored the link between the word for Sefirot and Sapphires illustrating how this brickwork could be referring to the Tree of Life itself which resolves into a series of rhombuses/diamonds once you remove the spheres, which are only there in the first place&nbsp;<b>to serve as text boxes</b>.&nbsp; Removing those text boxes you are left with the Sefirot as vertices, or points where the lines meet on the cut stone or crystal.&nbsp; This idea and the accompanying language of <b>quarrying, engraving and carving</b> stone(s) permeates the Sefer Yetzirah the key source text in the development of the QBL as a whole.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18fvQ0Z_e0I/WlxvVNKtlsI/AAAAAAAACpg/X-1REYmm8YUuEZiiXQJ_tAOofAw7AhsbQCLcBGAs/s1600/lumpy_earth_without_water.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="590" height="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18fvQ0Z_e0I/WlxvVNKtlsI/AAAAAAAACpg/X-1REYmm8YUuEZiiXQJ_tAOofAw7AhsbQCLcBGAs/s320/lumpy_earth_without_water.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Look at nature - bubbles are spheres, sure, but Earth isn't, its a misshapen blob.&nbsp; Cells aren't spheres in tissues like some perfect bubble wrap either they come in all kinds of <b>blob shapes</b>.&nbsp; Speaking of cells bearing in mind the idea of vertices when overlaying the Tree of Life on your body you are much more likely to benefit if you focus on your nervous system and the connections between the main nerves, and those connections are the ganglion which are hardly ''spheres''.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Md7k5Y5fM1c/Wlxv100MHVI/AAAAAAAACpo/qu9WO7kXVBcofqNKnobTGMAqbSy4-Jh5gCLcBGAs/s1600/cell-types.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="1600" height="245" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Md7k5Y5fM1c/Wlxv100MHVI/AAAAAAAACpo/qu9WO7kXVBcofqNKnobTGMAqbSy4-Jh5gCLcBGAs/s320/cell-types.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />From a mathematical perspective, as we move up through dimensions, we have circles, spheres and then glomes or higher dimensional spheres to play with - if you are working with spheres you are intrinsically working in 3d excluding the dimensions of time and perspective from your work.&nbsp; When it comes to the Sefirot themselves you might find more traction in toroids and vortices - if not, <b>try blobs.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GnPm-hOtLZs/Wl2wfkpffgI/AAAAAAAACp4/JnBoOIFYlxo51Y7NfgC-Ymjsvc-lfH15wCLcBGAs/s1600/Vortex-isometric.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GnPm-hOtLZs/Wl2wfkpffgI/AAAAAAAACp4/JnBoOIFYlxo51Y7NfgC-Ymjsvc-lfH15wCLcBGAs/s1600/Vortex-isometric.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />*Re-surfaced is probably inaccurate, its always on the surface like so much ocean plastic, it just happened to drift into my field of vision again.Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-78143121065593195082018-01-10T01:57:00.001-08:002018-01-10T01:59:01.955-08:00Evidence - Transtemporal Friction<blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />Gravity is working against me<br />Gravity wants to bring me down<br />Oh I'll never know what makes this man<br />With all the love his heart can stand<br />Dream of ways to throw it all away</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Gravity, John Meyer</blockquote><br />Quantum mechanics is common currency in modern esoteric practice, dished out like it readily explains all the hard problems of magickal work.&nbsp; Widely evoked, barely understood but funky as all hell, QM does provide scientific testable ''evidence'' of things and therefore is important to include alongside the eye witness testimony that we often have to rely on.&nbsp; If we are <b>putting magick on trial</b> here, QM et al will constitute an expert, if relentlessly confused, witness.<br /><br />The most popular of the interpretations is the Many Worlds Theory whereby every moment, multiple realities are being created and co-exist - in one universe the cat is alive, in another it is dead, etc - as the wave functions are being collapsed into observable reality.&nbsp; We may witness only one version but how do we know that not all possibilities are happening some other where in their own fragment of time and space?&nbsp; In this thinking magicians influence probability to end up in the universe they would like - a kind of probabilistic surfing.&nbsp; Although the most popular there are <i>other </i>ways of interpreting the results of Young's Double Slit and other quantum experiments, with serious consequences for Magick, and it is to one of these that we turn in our last post on <b>Evidence </b>- TIQM or the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation"><span style="color: red;">Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics</span></a>.&nbsp; The reason this interpretation stood out in my long hours of reading on the bus was the way it resonated with what Raziel says not only in the way that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism"><span style="color: red;">Superdeterminism</span></a> explains away such things as non-locality, spooky action or infinite worlds but also in the more obscure areas like the message on <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/10/anti-time-clones-and-blessing-of.html"><span style="color: red;">Anti-Time Clones</span></a> or on the <b>Reversiverse</b>.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">There is a way to escape the inference of super-luminal speeds and spooky action at a distance but it involves absolute determinism in the universe and the absence of free will.&nbsp; Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind the scenes clockwork, but also our behaviour, including our belief that we are free to do one experiment or another, absolutely predetermined, including the 'decision' by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears.&nbsp; There is no need for faster than light signals to tell particle A what measurement had been carried out on particle B, because the universe, including particle A already 'knows' what that measurement, and its outcome, will be.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">John Stewart Bell</blockquote><br />Bell Test Experiments are ways of testing the various interpretations of the data of Quantum Mechanics and their results suggest that theories that depend upon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory"><span style="color: red;">local hidden variables</span></a> (i.e. faster than light communication and other funky ''quantum'' stuff) should affect these experiments in certain constrained ways and <b>they don't.</b>&nbsp; Particles lose energy into the vacuum itself though so what is <i>causing </i>this energy loss - could it be that the particle is entangled with <i>itself </i>leading to the ''everything is one electron'' type of thinking? In Q.E.D. (Quantum Electro Dynamics) it is shown that nothingness spontaneously splits into particles and anti-particles which then annhiliate each other.&nbsp; One interpretation, depending on some retrocausality, is that the anti-particles are actually particles going back in time when we see them manifest it as if the <b>reversiverse </b>is directly contacting this one.&nbsp; What then if that energy loss in the void is not to do with a particle somehow interacting with itself persay, but interacting with, to quote Raziel, its ''anti-time clone'' - what if that energy loss is actually the result of a kind of <b>transtemporal friction</b> mediated through some extra orthogonal time dimension?&nbsp; The universe and the reversiverse literally <i>rub </i>against each other, and this ''spark'' that Raziel talked about is the heat energy lost from that self-same friction?&nbsp; Is time literally <i>burning </i>you out?<br /><br />My dedicated study of physics finished after college and although I considered applying for Physics and Philosophy at Oxford, I pursued biochemistry and genetics at university instead.&nbsp; I do maintain many good friends who are physicists though and the thinking in this post has been run by them and any new material generated will also be factchecked with such ''real physicists''.&nbsp; Anyway when most are confronted with this kind of thinking, physicist or otherwise, the argument against it starts with personal incredulity (I don't understand so that is not how it works) or when people ''get it'' defeatism (well if so then what is the point of science or anything, huh?).&nbsp; What I will <i>show </i>this year is that by getting beyond our delusional idea of 3 dimensional freedom we can access, through Raziels <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism"><span style="color: red;">compatabilist</span></a> approach, another type of <b>genuine freedom</b>.&nbsp; Based on the average current understanding of magick in our community, I reckon that most people will find this kind of thinking impossible, depressing or frightening but with Saturn in Capricorn, in these <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI"><span style="color: red;">strange days</span></a> leading to 2020, Chronos is coming for you.<br /><br /><blockquote>Time is on my side, yes it is,<br />Time is on my side, yes it is,<br />Now you always say that you want to be free<br />But you come running back<br />You come running back<br />You come running back to me</blockquote><br /><blockquote><br />The Rolling Stones</blockquote>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-35454836014606146822018-01-08T01:42:00.002-08:002018-01-08T01:42:30.346-08:00The 231 Gates Project 2018 - Skepticism<blockquote class="tr_bq">I have been studying how I may compare<br />This prison where I live unto the world:<br />And for the world is populous<br />And here is not a creature but myself<br />I cannot do it: Yet I'll hammer it out.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Richard II, Act V Scene V, William Shakespeare</blockquote><br /><br />Definitions of magick range from ''everything is magick'', ''magick is the influence upon probability by strange attractors such as spells, altars, amulets, rituals'' to ''magick is the contact of and entreaty with otherworldly entities''.&nbsp; Being skeptical as I was analysing what is considered to be a <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/12/evidence-contactcommunication.html"><span style="color: red;">result </span></a><span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span>in such work was useful in that it let me question how much of my magickal experience was hysteria or delusion and challenge the usefulness of loose versus tight definitions.&nbsp; If your identity and status are built around the quality of your demonstrable magickal experience it is less likely that you would want to question it as you are questioning the foundation upon which you stand both from a social and from a mental health perspective.&nbsp; A certain brand of magician is keen to seize on anything and everything as success in contact or results so much so that what magick is ends up becoming highly diluted.&nbsp; <br /><br />For those of you who have been following this last couple of months of renewing purpose and consolidating the work on time travel you will know that I have also been pursuing extreme skepticism when it comes to the WMT's notion of <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/12/the-life-magickal-aims-and-intentions.html"><span style="color: red;">what a spirit is</span></a>.&nbsp; According to my theory there is no such thing as an otherworld (or even astral plane persay) where spirits (elementals, demons, djinn, fae, angels, etc, ad nauseaum) ''live'', but spirits are all living entities in their own time and communication and effects are the result of temporal entanglement, both conscious and unconscious, as opposed to ''spiritual energy'' from ''another dimension'' or whatever.&nbsp; I am a ''spirit'' as much as an angel, elemental or faerie is and I can be ''summoned'' knowingly or unknowingly.&nbsp; The astral plane is the ''reversiverse'', where time flows backwards - although it might appear or feel, to our senses, to be something else.&nbsp; As the temporal entanglement theory requires the future to exist it also casts doubt on one of the assumptions of modern magickal theory i.e. that what you are ''affecting'' with magick is <i>probability </i>of a given thing happening.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Thus play I in one person many people,<br />And none contented: sometimes am I king;<br />The treasons make me wish myself a beggar,<br />And so I am, then crushing penury<br />Persuades me I was better as a king;<br />Then am I king'd again: and by an by<br />Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke<br />And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,<br />Nor I nor any man that but man is,<br />With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased,<br />With being nothing.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Richard II, Act V Scene V, William Shakespeare</blockquote><br />These exercises culminated in my yearly bus trip to England, a quality 19 hours with myself, the German night and the contemplation of time travel.&nbsp; Moving around in my own mind felt so much more free and my thoughts more dextrous after such <i>skeptical de-cluttering</i>.&nbsp; I used to ''joke'' with friends that I had deleted lots of memories from my childhood in order to free up room for ''other stuff'' and this felt very similar - in the space created new ideas could blossom.&nbsp; I spent the hours reading about <i>philosophical presentism</i> vs <i>eternalism </i>alongside a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics and a lot of what Raziel had been talking to me about began to come into sharp focus.&nbsp; I felt ''possessed by myself'' and was actually afraid of even thinking the theory that was beginning to form in my mind as I thought the thought alone might be enough to trigger the ''timetraveller swarm''.<br /><br />In conclusion then, I have one more post on <b>evidence </b>to make before we begin the 231 Gates Project for 2018 and this is rooted in this analysis (and adaptation) of quantum mechanics.&nbsp; This is not the Many Worlds idea (as Raziel already said this was highly misleading) but a different way of explaining the evidence we observe in science which links to concepts Raziel was sharing and which supports my theory of magick.&nbsp; I'll post links to the material that I am working with but it won't be fun for those of you who prefer your magic loose, woolly and snugly, as opposed to tight and restrictive like a strait jacket.&nbsp; Bearing in mind what has been outlined above - redefining magick and spirit(s) and abandoning probability - for some of you this may feel like a <b>Theory of Anti-Magic.</b><br /><br /><blockquote>I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;<br />For time hath made me his numbering clock.</blockquote><br /><blockquote>Richard II, Act V Scene V, William Shakespeare</blockquote>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-91300043934049097652017-12-24T02:17:00.000-08:002017-12-25T05:30:19.100-08:00Evidence - Contact/Communication<br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Doubt.<br />Doubt Thyself.<br />Doubt even if thou doubtest thyself.<br />Doubt all.<br />Doubt even if thou doubtest all.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies - 51 </blockquote><br />Bearing in mind the various ways our attempts at communication with ''spirits''&nbsp; can <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/12/evidence-failure-to-communicate.html"><span style="color: red;">fail</span></a>, if they are indeed happening at all, what do successes look like in our community and can they be <b>discounted </b>as evidence of genuine spirit contact?&nbsp; The following list only includes those forms of success in communication/contact that I have personal and considerable experience of and can therefore analyze, although I do think its fairly exhaustive and general as well.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kBz8t0IZvSM/Wj972z__KeI/AAAAAAAACpE/GfypBF1LC2k_m0jSMcCnOw1jVJUQ6LfQwCLcBGAs/s1600/and-your-evidence-ahh-you-just-know.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kBz8t0IZvSM/Wj972z__KeI/AAAAAAAACpE/GfypBF1LC2k_m0jSMcCnOw1jVJUQ6LfQwCLcBGAs/s400/and-your-evidence-ahh-you-just-know.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b>Physical Manifestation</b><br /><br /><br />Changes in the physical world such as temperature change, smells, or the appearance of ''faces'' in smoke, flame or the <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/12/evidence-from-corner-of-my-eye.html"><span style="color: red;">arrangement of things</span></a> cannot be considered true physical manifestation (in this definition) as they could be happening only in the minds of the magicians performing the working.&nbsp; This does not mean they are not successes persay but they fall under a different criteria.&nbsp; Forms of true physical manifestation could be sudden <i>weather effects</i> - storm, rain, fog, etc - in the sudden appearance of <i>animals (not pets) </i>- birds, insects, etc - which behave in very perculiar ways in&nbsp;<i> electrical and telekinetic effects</i> - power surges, things switching themselves on, objects moving, static electricity and in <i>boons - </i>material rewards of one form or another.&nbsp; Although these could be discounted as coincidence when they stack up coincidence is a shrinkingly likely explanation.&nbsp; What cannot be discounted is that this is psychic activity unknowingly generated by the magician themselves and falsely attributed to a spirit.<br /><br /><b>Emotional</b><br /><br />Intense changes in emotional states - moving from placidity/calm to mania (overwhelming energy, love, laughter and joy), hysteria (profound grief, sadness), etc.&nbsp; The problem with these experiences as evidence is that while entirely rewarding in and of themselves they could easily be the product of an excited imagination and emotional body and not necessarily as a direct result of the ''spirit'' itself.<br /><br /><b>Sense Perception</b><br /><br /><br />Sensing any change - temperature, light level, seeing flickers of movement, sulfurous smells or otherwise, feelings of being touched.&nbsp; Since these all occur within the sensory cortex of the magician they might not be happening physically and ultimately be self-induced.<br /><b><br />Visions/Speaking in Tongues/Possession</b><br /><br /><br />Sudden intense visions where you feel like you are literally seeing into another world or otherwise spontaneous astral projection.&nbsp; Speaking in a different voice and possessing knowledge that the person otherwise shouldn't.&nbsp; Taking on the mannerisms/behaviour of the entity conjured.&nbsp; Again in the excited enough mind it is possible that these could all happen through trance itself and be self-induced without any direct intercession of a spirit. If the person starts speaking in fluent Aramaic or Enochian you would have to stretch ''talking to yourself'' to include rememberance of languages from past or future lives - which would easily fit into temporal entanglement.<br /><br /><br /><b>Dreams</b><br /><br />Dreams are often considered to be evidence of contact, if you do the work and then the spirit comes to you in a dream then bingo!&nbsp; This surely is the easiest one to dismiss as verifiable contact with a spirit.&nbsp; Generally the dream is only included as evidence if it has an astral quality to it - highly vivid and containing evidence from the intelligible category.&nbsp; In a previous post on evidence I talked about your own dreams being potentially produced from other points in time where they are seen differently when observed from that point.<br /><br /><b>Intelligible</b><br /><br />This is when an idea forms unbidden in the mind - spoken into your mind, or a sudden flash of intuition during the ritual.&nbsp; Supporting evidence for genuine contact comes when the information you have recieved is something you could not possibly know.&nbsp; Yet I don't know everything that I do actually know so it would be rich of me to decide what I couldn't know.&nbsp; I could have come into contact with information and then forgotten it only to be triggered from memory by the intense ritual work.&nbsp; Alternatively the outer or higher mind could have this information and I have used the ritual as a means of accessing something personal even though the setup makes it feel like it has happened as the result of something external (spirit from ritual).&nbsp; Again this could be you talking to yourself at an advanced level. <br /><br /><b>Conclusion </b><br /><br />If the success is not dismissed by the above logic (that I am somehow talking to myself) then that needs to be explained within the temporal entanglement theory i.e. can the communication/contact be more accurately explained by two entities intertwining through time as opposed to through a veil separating us from an ''otherworld'' where spirits ''live''.&nbsp; Entangling with some thing from the ancient future/past could cover most extremely bizarre entities encountered, and when we think about talking to yourself we mustn't discount entangling with yourself across time after all, which would be an accurate definition of spirit or soul anyway - what will ''I'' look like in a thousand years and what kind of information about ''now'' will I have access to?<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt there lay some deepest certainty.<br />O kill it, slay the snake!<br />The horn of the doubt goat be exalted!<br />Dive ever deeper into the abyss of mind, until thou unearth the fox THAT.<br />On hounds!&nbsp; Yoicks!&nbsp; Tally-ho!&nbsp; Bring THAT to bay!<br />Then wind the Mort!</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">&nbsp;Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies - 51 </blockquote>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-34912295083846636522017-12-22T02:13:00.002-08:002017-12-22T03:22:48.236-08:00Evidence - Failure to Communicate<blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />You can call if you want but there's no one home,<br />And you're not gonna reach my telephone,<br />Because I'm out in the club, sipping that bub,<br />And you're not gonna reach my telephone!</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Telephone, Lady Gaga</blockquote><br />If occultists rarely talk about their experiences, prefering to conflate magick with extraneous topics, they next to <b>never talk about the failures</b>.&nbsp; Lets hear about all those times you attempted magick and... diddly squat... and find reasons why things went wrong.&nbsp; Well-recorded failures are evidence, a failure is a success to the diligent scientist.&nbsp; From time to time its good to review the standards of how we measure success and enjoy a little campfire Qabalah.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t-W3jrs4Rak/WjzQj7atUHI/AAAAAAAACo0/XgPH87Gf1nozPsqG0YBHBseMPDTJmp8zACLcBGAs/s1600/fictional-phones-wasp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="500" height="263" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t-W3jrs4Rak/WjzQj7atUHI/AAAAAAAACo0/XgPH87Gf1nozPsqG0YBHBseMPDTJmp8zACLcBGAs/s400/fictional-phones-wasp.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />In this post I want to talk specifically about <b>failures in communication</b> and in the following post&nbsp; what successes look like in my experience.&nbsp; For a laugh, we'll look at it through the lyrics of Lady Gaga's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQCa_Q1gtg"><span style="color: red;">Telephone:</span></a><br /><br /><ul><li><i>I can't hear a thing, I have no service in the club, you see</i> - Sometimes spirit communication fails because no service/broken lines/crossed lines, equivalent of getting no communication, partial communication or wrong communication, we should strive to be honest about the quality of the communication itself - space weather, <b>time weather</b>?</li><li><i>I'm Kinda Busy</i> - the spirit is busy with something else and will get to you later, maybe, the equivalent of being <b>on hold - how long did you wait?</b></li><li><i>You Should Have Made Plans when you knew I was free/No-one home</i> - failures regarding <b>astrological timing</b>, experienced esotericists know that ''when'' is a key question when it comes to all magic, if communication was unsuccessful did you call <b>when </b>you knew they would be out?</li><li><i>Now you won't stop calling me, I am sick and tired of my phone ringing </i>- Hassle spirits, and they stop taking your calls</li><li><i>Stop Calling, Stop Calling I don't want to think anymore</i> - lack of interest in your questions, concerns, are you badgering the spirit, is this only go to work if you <i>force </i>the spirit to answer?&nbsp; What does that <i>make </i>you?&nbsp; Desperate, obsessive, or just <i>really really keen</i>?&nbsp; What does that look like?&nbsp; Should we strive, above all else, to be <i>cool</i>?&nbsp; There is an element of <i>timing </i>involved in texting etiquette isn't there?</li><li>&nbsp;<b>Sometimes you just don't have their number</b> </li></ul>If you go to the lengths of ''making a call'' you are heavily invested in success and emotionally excited enough to the point where you can <i>make </i>yourself see, hear or feel things that are not genuine and whilst your mind is the portal through which successful spirit communications have to occur (as it has to be) it is also the source of all potential delusion.&nbsp; By census, the esoteric arts don't always invite the ''cold, impersonal investigator'' to the party, and highly emotional, fantasy prone individuals with rich and fertile imaginations could just be<b> talking to themselves</b>.&nbsp; On the other end of the spectrum the nominally more rational members of our community are normally also <b>paranoid </b>(I include myself), which in my understanding is a form of evolved, useful on the tribal scale, Shamanic, <b>ratio ad absurdum</b>, and therefore equally likely to <i>jump at shadows</i>.&nbsp;&nbsp; By increasing our sensitivity in any way we are also increasing the chance of self-delusion. This is further complicated by, as I explored in <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/12/evidence-from-corner-of-my-eye.html"><span style="color: red;">Out of the Corner of My Eye</span></a></span>, spirits actually using ''the shadows'' to communicate and in testing those Jungian outer reaches of our imagination are we are then not also testing those Jungian outer reaches of the universe and/or universal mind?&nbsp; After all, our perception is suspended in the rest of our mind, conscious and subconscious,&nbsp; before it is ever suspended in a physical reality.<br /><br />The psychogeography of the lunatic fringe, like Nature herself, is a bitch to navigate.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Boy the way you blowin' up my phone make me leave no faster,<br />Put my coat on faster, leave my girls no faster,<br />I should've left my phone at home cause this is a disaster,<br />Phonin' like a collector, sorry I cannot answer!</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Telephone, Lady Gaga</blockquote><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-80236266312608841072017-12-12T01:35:00.000-08:002017-12-12T05:23:32.909-08:00Evidence - Out of the Corner of My Eye<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here I am talking to you, excited and delighted, yet never do I forget for one moment there is an unfinished story waiting for me indoors.&nbsp; I see a cloud shaped like a grand piano.&nbsp; I think: I must mention in a story somewhere that a cloud went by shaped like a grand piano.&nbsp; I smell heliotrope.&nbsp; I say to myself: sickly smell, mourning shade, must be mentioned in describing a summer evening.&nbsp; I lie in wait for each phrase, for each work that falls from my lips or yours and hasten to lock all these words and phrases away in my literary storeroom.&nbsp; They may come in handy one day.</span></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trigorin, The Seagull, Anton Chekhov</span></blockquote><div class="yiv9599317701ydp3e721e99MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9599317701ydp3e721e99MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We see faces in everything - in clouds, in rocks, in trees, in buildings.&nbsp; We have evolved to see faces in things: those of us who could made out the leopard amongst the leaves; those of us who couldn’t didn’t make it this far. We see faces <i>and </i>we see spirits.&nbsp; More rigorous occultists will dismiss such inanities as Jesus in a Taco, yet those self-same occultists might congratulate themselves on conjuring to full appearance when they see a face in the smoke of their incense?&nbsp; To what extent should we use <b>pareidolia </b>to dismiss <i>or </i>justify esoteric experiences; how do we determine when seeing a face constitutes evidence of a spirit?</span></div><div class="yiv9599317701ydp3e721e99MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9599317701ydp3e721e99MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s an exercise bike in my bedroom that has curved handlebars that look exactly like the horns&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">of some baleful demon when seen <b>from the corner of my eye</b>.&nbsp; I should move it, why haven’t I moved it, why do I let it linger and haunt my dreams?!&nbsp; Sometimes I move my head, or blink and catch some sign of movement and turning closely to examine I see that it is only some reflection on the floor or door that moves when I move my neck – optics and not spirits at work, I reassure myself.&nbsp; Sometimes the juxtaposition of objects in 3d space reveals a haunting image when glanced at as 2d and my mind is more than capable of filling in for a <i>presence </i>as well, if the space lacked one of its own.</span></div><div class="yiv9599317701ydp3e721e99MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: #26282a;">A long time ago, in an English village far away, I found myself in a freezing haunted attic staring at the bloody imprint of a face in the wall.&nbsp; The house was haunted, legend had it that the master had raped and murdered a maid in the attic, and, so it goes, this face-like red-brown smudge on the wall was </span><i style="color: #26282a;">evidence </i><span style="color: #26282a;">of his/her presence.&nbsp; True, people had tried to paint over the smudge several times, but the face always returned – insidious damp or vengeful spirit?&nbsp; Not one to be wary of such things in those days I attempted a banishing (of sorts) with my friends.&nbsp; We played the Beatles to the spirit and beamed limitless love and forgiveness into it, then wished it farewell with a rousing chorus of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cvqe80-QbQ"><span style="color: red;">Strawberry Fields Forever</span></a><span style="color: #26282a;">.&nbsp; The face faded, over a few weeks, but it did fade.&nbsp; Successful banishing or the meeting of hearsay, hysteria, early winter, pareidolia and mould cycles?</span></span></div><div class="yiv9599317701ydp3e721e99MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9599317701ydp3e721e99MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">In spite of these doubts and concerns I am not ‘’debunking’’ this form of manifestation, I am attempting to review evidence of spirits like this in order to explore the temporal entanglement model.&nbsp; Spirit work generates all kinds of associated phenomena that we will review and at times <b>pareidolia</b> is a legitimate form/recognition of interaction.&nbsp; Sure, I can&nbsp;</span><i style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">randomly</i><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">&nbsp;see a dragon in the clouds, light streaming through it, but I can also see a dragon in the clouds after summoning a draconian entity.&nbsp; Coincidence, forcing myself to see something that isn’t there, or genuine manifestation?&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, conversely, was that random dragon all <i>that </i>random in the first place?&nbsp; Was a draconian entity, <i>somewhen</i>, summoning me?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #26282a;">I have a feeling that one of the effects of temporal entanglement is the imprint of one time on another time and these imprints show up in the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0hD1rfLL0"><span style="color: red;">arrangement of things</span></a><span style="color: #26282a;">.&nbsp; For instance lets suppose an impressively </span></span><span style="color: #26282a;">head dressed</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">&nbsp;magician <i>conjures me</i> from somewhere in the past – they may remote view my room from there (and it would seem alien), they may rifle through my mind learning things that they couldn’t have known, the future for example, and my dream self, my cloud self could send them back all kinds of visions, communications that little [dog name ego] me is blissfully unaware of and all I may see on this end of the temporal spectrum, evidence of his imprint, is that demonic exercise bike – </span><i style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">just taunting me</i><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beyond life, there are – his face grew ashen with terror - things that I cannot distinguish.&nbsp; They move slowly through angles.&nbsp; They have no bodies and they move slowly through outrageous angles… God they are breaking through!&nbsp; They are breaking through!&nbsp; Smoke is pouring in from the corners of the wall.&nbsp; Their tongues… - ahhh!</span></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Hounds of Tindalos, Frank Belknap Long</span></blockquote>Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-33279693154333741982017-12-04T02:37:00.000-08:002017-12-04T11:50:30.616-08:00The Life Magickal - Aims and Intentions<blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />Hello, hello, baby<br />You called, I can't hear a thing.<br />I have got no service<br />In the club, you see, see<br />Wha-wha-what did you say?<br />Oh, you're breaking up on me<br />Sorry I cannot hear you,<br />I'm kinda busy.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Telephone, Lady Gaga</blockquote><br />I have long been dissatisfied with the abundance of hazy terminology to denote different classes of spiritual entities (elementals, kings, angels, demons, daimones, archons, fae, saints, djinn, aliens, background people, time cops, etc) - these may all have great names that help to keep the wheels of publishing grinding but they are contained in a painfully weak zoology. Similarly I dislike the notions of a ''spiritual'' ''otherworld'' behind some kind of membrane where we talk to spirits like convicts behind plexiglass on prison phones and I think there are other ways to rationalise and describe these and other experiences. Occultists have surrendered attempts at unification, embraced woolliness and the scientific spirit that once animated us feels like it is dying or dead. Can we construct a unifying&nbsp;<i>theosophy </i>which is a little more robust?<br /><br />In the aftermath of the 231 Gates Project, Raziel's information on time travel has ''decentralised'' magic for me by removing the magician as the active cause [presentism] and asking me to look at all phenomena as being entangled through time [eternalism].&nbsp; He introduced me to such ideas as: <i>a determined sandbox pocket universe; pinch-points;&nbsp; an ''astral past''; the time traveller swarm; daughter universes; genetic dimensions; that most of infinity is uninhabitable</i>.&nbsp; In Fourteen Minotaurs he introduced me to a new way of viewing synchronicities and the navigation thereof changing my perception of magic forever.&nbsp; In <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/10/time-travel-some-general-theory-and.html"><span style="color: red;">Some General Theory</span></a> I outlined a new way of classifying spiritual entities and this kind of thinking will lay the groundwork for an esoteric worldview where we only have entities of one type across time, that humans are the same [spiritual] species as the others and all share ''DNA'' - an&nbsp;<b>esoteric genetics, </b>if you like.&nbsp; &nbsp; In <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/09/one-hundred-and-one-pieces-of-mind-man.html"><span style="color: red;">One Hundred and One Pieces of Mind Man Trivia</span></a> I looked at the idea of the astral plane as a <i>place </i>of shared memories versus a <i>stream </i>of shared memories that are actually our conscious experience going back through time [or history...], a<i> reversiverse -&nbsp;</i>and I will continue to explore the structure/mechanics of the astral plane in this new project.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">What am I doing? I'm talking to a blank telephone because there is a dead man on the other end of this fucking line.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Neil McCauley, Heat</blockquote><br />Moving forward requires consolidating all the work on time travel into one coherent testable hypothesis which unifies all spirit(s) through time. The <b>hard form</b> of this hypothesis will try to explain <i>all </i>spiritual communication as direct conscious temporal entanglement with an entity at a different point in time, the <b>soft form</b>&nbsp;will allow for communication to be occurring between them via&nbsp; interaction on a subconscious/superconscious ''dream'' level.&nbsp; For example when I conjure Osiris and he gives me information a) the hard form would see him near consciously providing answers as if on the other side of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQCa_Q1gtg"><span style="color: red;">telephone</span></a> - my act of ''magic'' is directly entangled with his and instead of one being a god and one being a mortal in two different worlds/planes we are simply <i>two magicians interacting across time</i>&nbsp;(or rather,<b> within history</b>)&nbsp; or b) the soft form that I would be entangling with his dreams (or other parts of his mind) and the provision of information is happening without his conscious knowledge, similarly other entities may tap into my dreams or subconscious and tap my ''wisdom''* - learning things they ''couldn't possibly have known'' and feeling like it has come from a ''spirit''.&nbsp; Raziel has dismissed the ideas that spirits <i>do </i>magic which ''cause'' things to happen but the [potential] energy/information exchange from entanglement could provide the ''oomph'' which causes universes to diverge at ''robust branching moments'', these points already established in the/our ''surviving histories'' i.e. within the finite set of variant selves which have ended up in ''coherent'' universes.<br /><br /><ul><li>During my Tower work I communicated with Edward Kelley using the Time Phone and also streamed the Enochian Calls back to him from the future - from my perspective Edward Kelley would seem to be a ghost, but from his perspective was I a ghost or even an Angel?&nbsp; At times conversations felt direct and at other times they felt like we were interacting through dreams - what is the true nature of the separating membrane?</li><li>The role of language in the efficacy of communication particularly with ancient spirits and ''elementals'' - how do you ''talk'' to a <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2016/10/time-travel-exploring-astral-past.html"><span style="color: red;">hatchet fish</span></a> in an ancient ocean?&nbsp; Do my interactions with Sumerian deities improve if I speak Sumerian?</li><li>The role of visions/dreams in communication with spirits and whether symbolic or emotional communication skips the need for shared language - this seems to support the soft form?</li><li>The role of the ''HGA'' as <i>the </i>trans-temporal spirit and whether other spirits could be classed as trans-temporal (hypercosmic? Gods)?</li><li>Are ''aliens'' interstellar, inter-dimensional or trans-temporal?&nbsp; Although space <i>appears </i>to be ''out there'' is it in anyway actually <i>playable </i>or simply the background art of a much smaller pocket universe both in time and space?</li><li>Are Angels A.I.?</li></ul>These and more questions will be generated, discussed and practically investigated and I will give myself a time table of one year to present some kind of metathesis on this.&nbsp; I will summarize key points from the extant work with Raziel and provide one document to my readers at the end.&nbsp; If anybody would like to get involved I will provide a monthly update specifically relating to this along the way and if people want to test the same theories via experiment I would be pleased to hear from you.&nbsp; Before the New Year I will have condensed the above into some kind of more or less coherent hypothesis (which can of course be tested and revised) and as discussed/established in the previous post I will work closely with Raziel, Enlil and Inanna, communicating with the former monthly and propitiating the latter weekly - in this we will assume/see Enlil and Inanna as the actual people the Gods were based on [intra-temporal]&nbsp;and Raziel as the effective HGA [trans-temporal].&nbsp; Other spirits will be contacted as necessary.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Stop callin', stop callin',<br />I don't wanna think anymore,<br />I left my head and my heart on the dance floor<br />Stop callin', stop callin'<br />I don't wanna think anymore,<br />I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.&nbsp;</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Telephone, Lady Gaga</blockquote><br /><br />*There was an experience of this in the ''Mantis contact?'', a sense of being rifled through - how much of that is going on constantly?Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-57762963687814152442017-11-30T04:34:00.003-08:002017-11-30T05:14:50.768-08:00The Life Magickal - Gods<br />In <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/11/the-life-magickal.html"><span style="color: red;">The Life Magickal</span></a> I talked about how my metaphysical adventures were always superior when I was under the auspices of one of the two Gods that I have devoted myself to and I want to reflect on some specifics about their influences and consider the possibility of new partnerships as I renew the aim and spirit of my work.&nbsp; <br /><br />Looking through the Blogos I think you would consider me a disciple of Thoth or Hermes but my experiences with the Gods have been, at first glance, quite out of that character. After I finished university I returned home to the Midlands as I had nowhere else to go, my girlfriend at the time, who was Spanish, returned to Madrid.&nbsp; Our relationship could not last the long distance and the breakup devastated me.&nbsp; In the aftermath I took a long hard look at where I was in the grand scheme of ''initiation'', felt that I was ''in Hod'' and accepted that I still had a lot to learn.&nbsp; In the thinking of that time I opened the ''Sphere of Netzach'' with an evocation of <b>Aphrodite </b>and began what was to become seven years of work with her, where she was the only deity in my life.*&nbsp; I've discussed the details of these experiences before but, to reiterate, one of the most important lessons I learned was how to <i>devote </i>- it was this devotion that allowed me to complete my 5 year study of the Sefer Yetzirah and <b>not flake out</b>.&nbsp; Its a lesson that I have applied to many areas of my life since then and the perfect remedy for ''Mercurial'' procrastination - she teaches you to love, to desire, to <i>obsess</i>, to be present, to commit, to serve <i>and </i>to control - all of these capacities Aphrodite brought into my life, whilst purging me of jealousy, and bound them to the arts magickal.&nbsp; When I began working with her, she appeared in very classical form but as I got to know her and saw past my preconceptions, she was revealed to be much more ancient and more alien than I first imagined.&nbsp; Now seeing her as the daughter of Cronos' assault on Uranus her impact on the direction of my work in time travel can't be understated - why do you have to <b>castrate block time</b> in order to<b> create linear time</b>?&nbsp; &nbsp;What does it mean to be the personification of that castration?&nbsp; During the 231 Gates Project one of the (Venus) rituals involved opening a conduit through time to return/restore a ''lost love'' but unfortunately the details of these rituals had to removed from the blog for safety**.''The Venus Current'', if you like, has been psychically clamouring for more attention and currently I am torn between deities - Hathor and Inanna - or perhaps she is torn between forms (? - if the fanatics in my audience will excuse my soft polytheism), but regardless, the choice will be important as I move on, whoever has to finally make it.<br /><br /><b>Enlil</b>, on the other hand,&nbsp;<b>chose me</b>.&nbsp; I had been invited to join the group Gentlemen for Jupiter, a set of magicians who were all working prosperity magic together, the so-called ''Jupiter Current'', and after my first ritual toast I decided to astrally project to scout things out on that giant gas planet.&nbsp; I found myself heading towards the great storm on Jupiter and was sucked into the eye whereupon I passed out.&nbsp; When I woke a voice in my head was saying ''Kish, Kish, Kish...'' and then once ''Sargon.'' This started some research that lead me to Enlil and his direction of the Jupiter current (as opposed to other members who were more involved with Jupiter/Zeus) has had a huge impact on my life.&nbsp; Considering how his qualities dovetail with a renewed aim and purpose, he is the Master of the Tablets of Destiny, whose commands are unalterable and therefore his assistance in understanding myself as a time traveller <i>within </i>block time is probably going to be highly advantageous.<br /><br />Together the ''currents'' of Venus and Jupiter under the stewardship of Aphrodite and Enlil and their corresponding influence on my magic (devotion and prosperity) have <i>bound </i>me to what used to be known as the <b>Right Hand Path</b> or the Pillar of Mercy in QBL - the forces of expansion, bliss, abundance and expression.&nbsp; We can understand both of them in the way they relate to Cronos - Aphrodite as the <i>product </i>of his assault on Uranus, Zeus as Cronos' own conqueror. I began this post, or at least the thinking behind it, assuming that <i>moving forward</i> would automatically necessitate a relationship with a God of Magic or a God of Time but as I air these thoughts and dwell on how much pressure I have been under from ''Venus'' I begin to doubt this necessity.&nbsp; Perhaps, with<i> Love and Lightning</i>, I have all the allies I need.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />I know, I alone,<br />How much it hurts, this heart<br />With no faith nor law,<br />Nor melody nor thought.<br />Only I, only I<br />And none of this can I say,<br />Because feeling is like the sky -<br />Seen, nothing in it to see.</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">I know, I alone, Fernando Pessoa</blockquote><br /><br /><br />*I worked extensively with Angels (therefore of Enlil, Ellil, El, etc - so technically the other God was involved already) and letter-spirits.<br />**The love that I had known in the Tower was restored though, the ritual suceeded.Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277334884658608901.post-32888015035391144852017-11-20T00:24:00.001-08:002017-11-20T04:17:33.124-08:00The Life MagickalIn answering the question <i>what is magic for me right now?</i> and to re-establish creative limitations I need to reflect on what magic was for me then and how/why that has changed over time.&nbsp; Building upon <a href="http://hermeticlessons.blogspot.cz/2017/11/phantom-time.html"><span style="color: red;">Phantom Time</span></a> I would say that my esoteric work was <i>less </i>affected by or conflated with other subjects during two periods - <b>The Sefer Yetzirah Study</b> which ran from 2001 - 2006 and the <b>Gentlemen for Jupiter</b> and <b>Edward Kelley's Tower</b> phase from 2011- 2014.<br /><br />During the <b>Sefer Yetzirah Study</b> my life was almost entirely focused on theory and practice of Qabalah.&nbsp; A typical day would be spent ''reading'' the Sefer Yetzirah, conjuring archangels, researching/meditating on letters and <i>pathwalking</i>.&nbsp; Supporting reading was mainly in <i>sciences </i>- biopsychology and endocrinology specifically - but all of it was tied back to Qabalah and understanding how the letters of the Alefbeit manifest in the world.&nbsp; <b>Pathwalking </b>was a process by which I and others in the group would conjure the letter itself on to and <i>sanctify </i>an actual physical path and then walk along it communing with the spirit of the letter through the phenomena it ''caused''.<br /><br />My main focus during the intermediary period of 2007-2010 was catching up on a lot of reading in philosophy, history and literature that I hadn't completed because I was training to be a biochemist. I was also reintroducing theatre into my life - as a teacher and as a professional actor.&nbsp; Although magick was still a very important part of what I did it was definitely <i>playing second fiddle.</i>&nbsp; My motivation for a lot of the reading - Plato, Iamblichus, history of ancient civilizations, etc - was in order to get a better grasp of [the roots of] magick but I can't say I was a pure magician during this time as much as I was an aspiring Renaissance intellectual thespian, a fine but important line that I had crossed, now way more Marlowe than Fludd.<br /><br />During the <b>Gentlemen for Jupiter</b> and <b>Edward Kelley's Tower</b> phase theatre was blended with magick for the most part such that nearly every play I wrote, directed or acted in was an active study and conjuring of Jupiterian themes - theatrical rituals where magick was central.&nbsp; Other planetary forces were also conjured and when I moved into the Tower the focus moved towards Venus and Mercury.&nbsp; Having residency there I considered it my <i>duty </i>to continue serious magickal research and Saturn began to dominate when the work culminated in the various ''time travel'' experiments of the 231 Gates Project and the conjuring of a variety of ''spirits'' - elementals, demons, ghosts, angels, Enochian entities et al - in support of this.<br /><br />The period after 2014 - 2017 saw a somewhat necessary dip in magickal endeavours due to the recovery time necessary after sanity testing experiences in the Tower.&nbsp; My experiences were/have been mainly limited to astral projection, planetary theatrical ritual, prosperity magick, metaphysical research and the continuing dialogue with Raziel.&nbsp; I have made a series of real world presentations on the Metabolism of Time and have gathered a small group of students for continuing the tradition.&nbsp; My non-magickal theatrical and acting endeavours have increased as a result of the prosperity work.<br /><br />In comparing the Life Magickal with the Life Theatrical or Intellectual during the <b>Sefer Yetzirah Study</b> phase there were a <b>lot less people</b> involved in my life: my job(s) afforded me a great deal of private personal study time; my second University degree was spent in relative social isolation with a lot of communion with nature during pathwalking experiments; I was single-ish but with a series of excellent muses.&nbsp; During the intermediary phase where my magickal pursuits dipped a little I was surrounded by well-educated, well-travelled people (students and teachers) in a different country and I ended up in an <b>intellectual arms race</b>.&nbsp; Social pressure from colleagues definitely skewed my reading and philosophy and although I am not decrying that influence they are one of the main reasons that magick lost its centrality.&nbsp; &nbsp;The role of social pressure in rewarding various types of transactions and punishing others (alongside the naturally daunting subject matter itself) is one of the reasons why magick has been so heavily conflated with other topics in our international community.&nbsp; Magick regained its centrality when I integrated it with the new subjects and/or knowledge when they were harnessed or digested if you like but not when I pretended something else was in fact magick.<br /><br />Another important influence has been <b>the Gods</b> - the two phases that were dominated by magickal work were also dominated by Gods - in the SY study phase I worked incredibly closely with <b>Aphrodite </b>and in the G4J/Tower phase with <b>Enlil</b>.&nbsp; Both times I used Liber Astarte vel Berylli to fully bond with them.&nbsp; Having that relationship front and centre was so essential to the success of my magickal aims it is something I have to consider as I renew the direction of my work.<br /><br />The final point that comes to mind now is <b>the target</b> itself - during SY study the aim was clear, once that was finished I was left a little adrift until the G4J whose own target was perhaps too ambitious for many of the Gentlemen to complete and which for me was eventually subsumed by the challenges presented by life in the tower.&nbsp; Although I have been focused and stayed relatively on topic (time travel) in the aftermath I haven't ever clearly stated my aim and my conversations with Raziel and astral explorations have been way more haphazard than I would like.<br /><br />So:<br /><br />- reduce number of extraneous people<br />- establish strong relationship with chosen God<br />- clearly define aim<br /><br /><div>I am going to leave this here for now and while the first point is easy to achieve, I will explore the tricky thinking behind and my problems with the last two in the next couple of posts as a way of clearing my thoughts on this.&nbsp;</div><br /><br />Blogoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912965381621092560noreply@blogger.com1